DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0146Z April 21, 2023
SMOKE: South-Central US/Eastern U.S./Atlantic Ocean… Heavy seasonal burning and some embedded wildfires are responsible for a large area of mostly light to moderate density smoke which was located over a portions of south-central Texas to the northeast across the eastern U.S., this covered much of the eastern U.S. south of Massachusetts and over the Atlantic this evening. Today’s round of seasonal fire activity caused areas of denser to even thick smoke throughout the southeastern U.S., specially in southern Alabama, western Georgia and the northern Florida as well as eastern North Carolina. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Southern Texas/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 with aerosols from industrial activities originating in Mexico and northwestern Central America resulted in a very large mass of primarily light to moderate density smoke which blanketed much of southern Mexico south of Texas, western Cuba, northwestern Central America, the Pacific off the coast of southern Mexico and northwestern Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, and southern Texas. Moderate to even smaller thick density areas of smoke were seen over southern/eastern Mexico, northwestern Central America (thick), most of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific off the coast of southern Mexico and northwestern Central America. Blowing Dust: Texas, Oklahoma... Light to medium blowing dust could be seen originating in central Texas and and was moving northeast into southern Oklahoma and into cloud cover this evening. 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