DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z January 28, 2022
SMOKE:
South Central and Southeastern U.S...
Agricultural burning activity was observed over parts of the South
central U.S, however no smoke was currently observed over this region,
but likely will be visible in satellite imagery later today. Remnant
light density smoke was observed in the lower Mississippi Valley and
Southeastern U.S. behind a weather front from a large weather system this
morning. Smoke analysis over most of the Southeastern U.S. was difficult
this morning due to widespread cloud cover from a weather system present
over the region.
Hispaniola and Central Caribbean Sea...
A broad region of light density smoke from ongoing wildfire activity in
the southwestern Dominican Republic was seen this morning over southern
Haiti and the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic progressing
southwestward to well offshore from coastal Hispaniola to the east and
southeast of Jamaica over the central Caribbean sea. Moderate to thick
density smoke was observed in the vicinity of the wildfire complexes
over inland southwestern Dominican Republic and southeastern Haiti in
this morning’s GOES east visible satellite imagery.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Bay of Campeche/Southern Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific Ocean
South of Mexico and Central America/Cuba/Central Bahamas/Caribbean...
A broad region of light to moderate density smoke from a combination of
aerosols from oil and gas flaring as well as other industrial pollution
sources along with leftover smoke from regional seasonal fire activity
was observed this morning. The smoke and aerosols were observed over a
large portion of coastal southern Mexico as well as coastal northwestern
Central America including Guatemala and extending south and southwest
well offshore from coastal southern Mexico and Central America over
the eastern Pacific. A combination of light density smoke and aerosols
were also observed over parts of Central Cuba extending northward over
a small portion of the Central Bahamas as well as southward over the
western Caribbean Sea north of Central America in this morning’s GOES
west visible satellite imagery.
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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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov