DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0124Z February 1, 2022
SMOKE:
South Central and Southeastern United States...
Widespread agricultural burning activity was observed throughout the
South-central and southeastern United States. Numerous fires blanketed the
area with light density smoke that included swaths of moderate density
smoke. This area of smoke starts in Oklahoma in the west up to Missouri
in the north and continues to the east from the Gulf states ending in
South Carolina.
South Florida...
Agricultural burning activity was observed around the Lake Okeechobee
region of South Florida. Light density plumbs of smoke were combining
and then moved quickly off to the north.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Bay of Campeche/Gulf of Mexico/Southern and Eastern Mexico/Northwestern
Central America/Pacific Ocean South of Mexico and Central America...
A combination of thin density smoke from seasonal fires in Mexico and
Central America and other atmospheric pollutants including aerosols from
oil and gas flaring and other industries in the region was visible today
over the the western Bay of Campeche, western Gulf of Mexico, portions
of southern and eastern Mexico, northwestern Central America, and the
Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Mexico and Central America.
BLOWING DUST:
Utah, Nevada...
An area of moderate to heavy density blowing dust kicked up from the
Great Salt Lake Desert in northwest Utah, This dust was seen moving
southwest into Nevada as night approached.
Eglin
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