DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 29, 2022
SMOKE: Central and Southeastern U.S./Northern Gulf of Mexico… The Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires in north central New Mexico and the Bear Trap, Water, and Black fires in southwestern New Mexico continue to burn this morning. A swath of moderate to thick density smoke from the Water Fire in the Gila National Forest of southwestern New Mexico was seen spreading to the northeast reaching east central New Mexico. A little farther to the north, a smaller moderately dense plume was emanating from the Black Fire and also moving to the northeast. Over north central New Mexico, a narrow thin to moderately dense plume could be seen moving to the northeast from the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires. In addition, a sprawling mass of mostly thin density smoke primarily attributed to the New Mexico wildfires was visible covering a large portion of the Central U.S. and extending across the northern Gulf of Mexico, southeastern U.S. and off the southeastern U.S. coast over the far western Atlantic. Smoke from the ongoing seasonal fire activity and a few wildfires in Mexico is likely mixing in with the smoke from the New Mexico wildfires across at least the southern portion of the smoke area including the south central and southeastern U.S. and northern Gulf of Mexico. Georgia/South Carolina… A relatively larger fire over southeastern Georgia to the west of Savannah yesterday produced fairly significant smoke which was still visible this morning. Localized moderate density smoke was seen near and to the west of the fire while a detached patch of moderate to thick density smoke was noted moving to the north over southern and central South Carolina. Western Arizona… A detached area of thin density remnant smoke from the Lost Lake Fire along the Colorado River near the California-Arizona border was visible moving to the east over west central Arizona this morning. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Texas/U.S. Gulf Coast Region/Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Pacific Ocean off the Southern and Western Coast of Mexico... The large mass of primarily light to moderate density smoke from significant seasonal fire activity and a few wildfires mixed with aerosols from oil/gas flaring and other industrial sources in Mexico continued to be seen this morning covering most of Mexico and extending well offshore to the south and west of Mexico over the Pacific. The smoke also extended over the western and northern Gulf of Mexico and up across Texas and portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast region where it likely mixed with smoke from the New Mexico wildfires. A few smaller patches of embedded thicker smoke associated with a few of the more significant fires were seen mainly over western Mexico. JS 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