DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z November 29, 2022
SMOKE: Southeastern U.S… A number of developing mainly thin density smoke plumes were seen with seasonal type fire activity especially over Georgia and Florida. Across southern Florida, numerous thin to locally moderate density smoke plumes merged to form a relatively larger patch of smoke which moved to the west over a portion of Lake Okeechobee reaching the west coast of the Florida peninsula. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Southern Texas/Gulf of Mexico/Eastern and Southeastern Mexico… An area of thin density aerosol was detected over eastern and southeastern Mexico, the Bay of Campeche, the western Gulf of Mexico, and possibly extending into southern Texas though cloud cover over Texas limited additional information on the extent of the aerosol in that region. This aerosol was likely to be composed of pollution from gas flaring in the Bay of Campeche and urban pollution in south-central Mexico, in addition to small contributions from seasonal fire activity in southern 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