DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0038Z April 10, 2023
SMOKE: Central U.S./Great Lakes Region… A sizable leftover area of primarily thin density smoke from yesterday’s round of intense seasonal burning in the area roughly extending from Oklahoma to southern Wisconsin was seen this morning stretching from portions of central and eastern Oklahoma northward to southern Minnesota. From there, the smoke extended to the east reaching lower Michigan, Lake Erie, and Ohio. Currently, newly forming smoke plumes were becoming visible with today’s round of seasonal fire activity within the same general area of yesterday’s activity. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Florida/Gulf of Mexico/Hispaniola/Cuba/Caribbean Sea/Northwestern Central America/Eastern Half of Mexico/Pacific Ocean South of the Southern Coast of Mexico and Central America… Significant and widespread seasonal fire activity in Mexico and Central America resulted in a very large mass of primarily thin to moderate density smoke which blanketed much of southern and western Mexico, portions of Central America, the Pacific off the coast of southern Mexico and northwestern Central America, most of the Gulf of Mexico, southern Florida, and Jamaica, and Hispaniola. Some aerosols from industrial activities originating in Mexico and Central America may also be mixed in with the smoke. Cloudiness in various places including Texas and inland over the eastern U.S. prevented the location of any smoke through satellite imagery which might still be present in those areas. Moderate to even thick density areas of smoke were seen over some of southern Mexico, northwestern Central America (thick), most of the Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, and the western and northern Gulf 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