DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0008 November 22, 2022
SMOKE: Southeastern U.S, Southern Alabama and Southern/Eastern Georgia… An area of light density smoke covered portions of the southeastern U.S. due to heavy seasonal/prescribed type fire activity. Numerous moderate smoke plumbs were seen from these fires in southern Alabama and southern/eastern Georgia and they were all generally moving southwest. Pacific Northwest/Pacific Ocean off the Pacific Northwest Coast… A large number of wildfires and seasonal/prescribed type fire activity was picked up by our sensors but the area became cloud covered precluding smoke analysis in this area. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Pacific off the Southern Coast of Mexico… Similar to recent days, a broad area of what is most likely primarily thin density aerosol from industrial sources in Mexico with a smaller contribution of smoke from oil and gas flaring and seasonal fire activity in the region was seen over coastal southern Mexico, coastal northwestern Central America and the Pacific off the southern coast of Mexico. 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