DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z April 7, 2022
SMOKE: Florida... A few light smoke plumes were observed moving north and northeast from agricultural burning near and south of Lake Okeechobee. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Florida Peninsula/Gulf Coast/Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Mexico/ Central America/Pacific/Caribbean... A large area of thin smoke was present across the western Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and surrounding land areas including the Yucatan, eastern Mexico, and the Gulf Coast. The smoke is moving northwestward from Central America and the Yucatan into the Gulf of Mexico, where the smoke then starts moving northeastward. A cold front over the Southern Plains is limiting the northward extent. The thin smoke the continues eastward across Florida into the Atlantic Ocean ahead of a second cold front. The smoke/aerosol sources are widespread agricultural burning across Mexico and Central America coupled with gas flaring activities in the Bay of Campeche and the Mexican coastal plain south of the Bay of Campeche. Arkansas/Oklahoma/Texas... Several wildfire plumes were observed across this region. One thin density plume in the Texas Panhandle, a few small thin density plumes in northeastern Oklahoma, and a single light to moderate density plume over west-central Arkansas. DUST: Southern Plains... A large plume of blowing dust moving southeast was detected across the Texas Panhandle, north-central Texas, and the western half of Oklahoma. Konon 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