Saturday, January 29, 2022

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.