DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z January 30, 2022
SMOKE: Great Plains and Southeastern U.S… Widespread presumed agricultural burning activity was observed in satellite imagery from Nebraska and Iowa south into eastern Texas and east into Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Activity further east and along the Florida Peninsula was a little more scattered. From nearly everywhere mentioned, light to moderate smoke production was noted from numerous individual burns. Smoke from these burns was moving southeastward to south-southeastward across southern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, east-northeastward from Texas into northern Mississippi and southern Missouri, and due eastward movement from across the Red River Valley into eastern Kansas. The most dense smoke production was noted across the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle, while the greatest density of moderately dense smoke plumes was across Mississippi. Northern California into Eastern Oregon… Further agricultural burning was noted across northern California. Much of the smoke was light with one or two nearing moderate density. Much of the smoke was moving eastward across the Sacramento Valley and across eastern Oregon, with some of the smoke in the Sierras and Coastal Ranges dominated more by local terrain flow. From earlier today: 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. 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