DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0420Z January 14, 2022
SMOKE:
Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeast...
Many seasonal agricultural fires were producing numerous small, light
to moderate density plumes over the region with smoke movement to
the east and southeast.
Hispaniola/Caribbean...
Moderate to thick density smoke from wildfires in the southwestern
part of the Dominican Republic was visible moving to the east with
a larger surrounding batch of thinner density smoke extending to
the south and southwest of the fires over the Caribbean.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Western Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Eastern and Southern Mexico/
Northwestern Central America/Pacific South of Mexico and Central
America...
Northerly flow suppressed the usual remnant smoke and other aerosols
from gas and oil flaring and other industrial pollutants across
eastern Mexico, the western Gulf of Mexico, and the Bay of Campeche.
This along with extensive cloud cover allowed for only a relatively
small patch of the remnant smoke from seasonal fire activity in
eastern Mexico to be seen over a sliver of eastern Mexico and the
western Gulf of Mexico. Farther to the south, sizable areas of
aerosols from oil and gas flaring and industrial activities combined
with possible leftover thin density smoke from regional seasonal-type
burning was detected along and off of portions of southern Mexico,
northwestern Central America, and well out over the Pacific to the
south of these regions.
Konon
THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE.
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov