DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z January 12, 2023
SMOKE: Southeastern U.S/Eastern Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean off of Southeast Coast… A batch of leftover mainly thin density smoke attributed to recent rounds of primarily seasonal fire activity was seen off the southeast coast of the U.S and Florida, along with portions of the far eastern region of the Gulf of Mexico. Within the area of smoke, visible light density smoke plumes from agricultural and seasonal burning was seen in Florida moving northward. SMOKE/AEROSOL: U.S. Central and Western Gulf Coast Region/Northern and Western Gulf of Mexico/Eastern and Southern Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern Mexico and Northwest Central America… A huge area of primarily thin density aerosol, composed in part by industrial activities in Mexico and seasonal fire activity also in Mexico, was visible today covering a good portion of eastern and southern Mexico, some of northwestern Central America, and extending south of those areas well out over the Pacific. A patch of moderate density smoke/aerosol mixture was present over a portion of the coast of southern Mexico and extending to the south over the Pacific and north into the Gulf of Mexico. The thin density smoke/aerosol mixture also stretched to the north over the western and northern Gulf of Mexico and inland over the U.S. Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana. DUST: Texas… Possible thin dust was observed this morning moving east across northwestern Mexico and southern Texas. Nguyen 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