DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0001Z April 26, 2022
SMOKE: New Mexico... Two wildfires in northern New Mexico continued to burn producing light to heavy density smoke dispersing towards the north and then west along the northern border. Arizona/Northern Baja California... A fire in Yavapai County in central Arizona continued to burn resulting in a plume of light to heavy density smoke extending toward the west. Kansas and Oklahoma… Scattered fires throughout the SE corner of Kansas and NE corner of Oklahoma were emitting light-density smoke plumes towards the SE. U.S. Eastern Coast… Scattered fires through the eastern coast, from Pennsylvania to the Florida Panhandle, of the U.S. were emitting smoke plumes of various densities towards the N-NE Canada, Montana, and the Dakotas… Light-density smoke from heavy wildfires in Siberia were seen through a break in the clouds over the southern half of Saskatchewan, Canada which then moved south into Montana and the Dakotas. Rodriguez 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