DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z January 29, 2022
Corrected for time through which imagery has been analyzed
SMOKE:
Great Plains into the southeastern CONUS…
Scattered agricultural burning activity was observed from eastern
Nebraska south into Texas and then east to Georgia and the Florida
Panhandle. Light to moderate smoke plumes were observed emanating from
many of these observed fires and moving southeastward behind a cold
front that moved across the Atlantic states today.
Western Oregon…
Isolated smoke producing fire activity was observed across western
Oregon this afternoon and evening. Light smoke from these fires was
moving mainly northward.
Hispaniola and Cuba…
Scattered fire activity across Hispaniola and Cube was producing mainly
light smoke moving northeastward. One exception the the persistent
wildfire activity in southern Dominican Republic, which was producing
moderate to thick smoke. This smoke was extending west-southwest over
the Caribbean Sea.
From earlier:
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.
Hosley
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