DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0016Z December 17, 2022
SMOKE: Washington, Oregon, Pacific Ocean... Numerous wildfires and seasonal/prescribed type fire activity was observed in western Washington and western Oregon releasing mostly light density smoke plumes that were moving generally north in Oregon and generally west in Washington going out over the Pacific Ocean along the coast. A patch of remnant light density smoke from the ongoing wildfires and seasonal/prescribed fires in the northwest was seen further off in the Pacific off the northwestern U.S. coast this evening. SMOKE/AEROSOLS: Southern Texas/Florida/Atlantic Ocean/Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Gulf of Mexico/Pacific Ocean South of Mexico... A sizable area of thin density smoke and from scattered seasonal fire activity in Mexico mixed with aerosols originating from gas flaring activity in Bay of Campeche and urban/industrial activity in Mexico continues to be analyzed over the Western and northeastern Gulf of Mexico along with the eastern coast of Mexico. The thin smoke and aerosols seemed to also have extended across the Gulf of Mexico, through Florida and into the Atlantic ocean southeast of the U.S due to the weather funneling the smoke. Another area of smoke or smoke/aerosol mixes were observed off the southwestern coast of Mexico into the Pacific Ocean. 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