DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0113Z January 20, 2022
Florida...
Numerous agricultural fires throughout Florida were emitting mostly thin
density smoke plumes which were moving generally north over the day. Two
larger light to moderate density smoke plumbs from agricultural fires
were observed in Florida panhandle and were observed moving north into
Alabama and Georgia as evening approached.
Hispaniola/Caribbean...
Wildfires produced locally thicker smoke in the western part of the
Dominican Republic which fanned out as it moved to the west over a
portion of nearby Haiti and the Caribbean.
SMOKE/AEROSOL...
Western Gulf of Mexico/Southern and Eastern Mexico/Northwestern Central
America/Pacific Ocean South of Mexico and Central America…
A combination of thin density smoke from seasonal fires in Mexico and
Central America and other unknown aerosol was extending along the western
Gulf of Mexico and eastern Mexico into southern Texas. This continued
over southwestern Mexico and northwestern Central America extending
offshore into the Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Eglin
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