Sunday, February 27, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0117Z February 28, 2022

SMOKE:
Florida/Georgia/Alabama/Eastern Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean off the
Southeast U.S. Coast...
Seasonal fire activity mostly in Florida and Georgia was seen today
creating a large area of light density smoke which probably has
contributions from recent significant residual smoke. The smoke stretched
over a portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico and extending inland over
much of Florida, far southeastern Alabama, southern Georgia, and southern
south Carolina. The smoke then also extended offshore of the southeastern
U.S. coast over the Atlantic Ocean. Cloud cover along the northern
periphery of this area of smoke prevented additional information on the
extent of the smoke in that region from satellite imagery. One area of at
least moderate density smoke was observed moving east in northern Florida.

Central US...
Seasonal fire activity mostly in central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas,
eastern Nebraska, and Arkansas were responsible for numerous mostly light
to moderate smoke plumbs that were generally moving east throughout the
area as evening approached.

Hispaniola/Caribbean Sea...
Scattered wildfire activity continues to be observed in the Southwestern
Dominican Republic emitting light density smoke that was seen progressing
southwestward offshore from Hispaniola over the Caribbean Sea.

Cuba:
Seasonal burning was responsible for numerous light to moderate density
smoke plumbs throughout Cuba creating areas of light smoke over the
Caribbean moving northwest of Cuba and south of the island. Some moderate
density smoke plums were observed in southern Cuba.

SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Bay of Campeche/Gulf of Mexico/Southern and Eastern Mexico/Northwestern
Central America/Pacific Ocean South of Mexico and Central America...
The usual combination of thin to moderate 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 this morning over most of the Bay of Campeche, the
southern and western  Gulf of Mexico, portions of southern, central,
and eastern Mexico, northwestern Central America, and the Pacific
Ocean extending well off the southern coast of Mexico and Central
America. Within the larger mass of thin density smoke/aerosol were a
large area of moderate density smoke/aerosol which were more prevalent
over southern Mexico and extending to the south off the coast of southern
Mexico over the Pacific Ocean.

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 map:	https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
Smoke data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons
Fire data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points

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.