DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z January 29, 2022
SMOKE:
South Central and Southeastern U.S…
Numerous relatively thin density smoke plumes were still visible in the
morning associated with yesterday’s round of what is believed to be
mainly seasonal/prescribed type fire activity over portions of the south
central and southeastern U.S. from eastern Texas and Arkansas extending
to the east to Georgia. Over the far western Gulf of Mexico, a long and
narrow north to south elongated patch of leftover thin density smoke
was visible off the southeastern and southern Texas coastline. This was
likely from seasonal fires burning in southeastern Texas and/or southern
Louisiana yesterday. In addition, a larger batch of thin density aerosol
which may contain some remnant smoke from yesterday’s seasonal fire
in the south central and southeastern U.S. was seen spreading to the
southeast across a good portion of the area from Alabama and the Florida
panhandle to the Carolinas.
Hispaniola/Caribbean…
Thin density smoke from ongoing wildfires in the southwest part of the
Dominican Republic was seen this morning extending to the south and
southwest over a portion of Haiti and over the Caribbean. Moderate to
thick density smoke from these fires was noted near and to the east of
the fires in the southwest part of the Dominican Republic.
SMOKE/AEROSOL/DUST:
Southern Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific Ocean South of
Mexico and Central America...
A large mass of what is believed to be a combination of smoke from
seasonal fires in portions of Mexico and Central America as well as
aerosols from oil and gas flaring and other industrial sources in Mexico
and Central America was visible this morning over portions of southern
Mexico and Central America and extending well to the south over the
eastern Pacific. Within this larger area of a mixture of different types
of thin density aerosols was a batch of moderately thick aerosols which
was located over the Pacific to the south of the Mexican states of Oaxaca
and Chiapas and to the southeast of Guatemala. This thicker aerosol may
also be partly composed of dust which originated from sources inland
bordering the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
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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