DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0107Z December 30, 2022

SMOKE:
Eastern and Southeastern United States...
A large amount of thin to moderate density smoke plumbs attributed
primarily to widespread seasonal burning activity in the southeastern
U.S. with this area stretching from Louisiana northeastward across the
Southeastern U.S. into North Carolina and Virginia. A large area of
light to moderate smoke was observed around southern Georgia, southern
Alabama, northern Florida and southern South Carolina. Another area of
light density smoke was observed over most of Virginia and North Carolina
continuing off the cast into the coastal Atlantic south of Long Island.

Pacific Northwest...
A large number of wildfires and seasonal/prescribed type fire activity was
observed throughout British Columbia and Alberta. Some light to moderate
smoke plumes were observed in Alberta moving generally east but snow in
the background and periodical cloud covered precluding smoke analysis
in this area.

SMOKE/AEROSOLS:
Southwestern and Eastern Coasts of Mexico/South-central CONUS/Gulf of
Mexico/Bay of Campeche…
The persistent area of smoke/aerosol from gas flaring, pollution, and fire
activity continues to exist across and southwest of the southern coast
of Mexico (the states of Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacan), the northwest
coast of Central America, the coastal plain of Eastern Mexico, southern
and eastern Texas, the ArkLaTex, the western Gulf of Mexico and the Bay
of Campeche. This smoke/aerosol mix was seen extending well out over the
Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Mexico and Central America Today.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.