Monday, March 6, 2023

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z March 7, 2023

SMOKE:
Southeastern CONUS/Southern Plains/Mid-Atlantic…
Mainly light to moderate density smoke plumes were seen emanating from
agricultural burning activity across the southeastern CONUS and southern
Plains from Texas to Georgia to New Jersey. A vast majority of smoke
plumes were observed moving east-northeastward, with the exception of the
Mid-Atlantic coast, where smoke was observed moving east-southeastward out
into the Atlantic Ocean. The thickest smoke production was seen across
eastern Texas and northern Lousiana, where moderate to thick density
smoke was emitted. Cloud cover across portions of the southeastern CONUS
(ArkLaTex early this afternoon, eastern Georgia into the eastern Carolinas
late this morning into the early afternoon) prevented the analysis of
smoke across those areas.

Central Plains…
Widespread agricultural burning activity was also noted across Kansas
and Missouri today, with scattered smoke production noted moving smoke
southward, implying a cold front that was moving through southern Missouri
and northern Oklahoma. Much of the observed smoke was light in nature.


Florida/Southern Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Central
America/Cuba/Hispaniola/Caribbean Sea/Atlantic Ocean/Pacific Ocean south
of Mexico…
Widespread fire activity across the northern Caribbean Islands, Central
America, and Mexico, along with gas flaring in the Bay of Campeche,
was helping to create a large blanket of smoke that covered Hispaniola,
Cuba, much of the southern half of Mexico, portions of Central America
and the Yucatan, the Bay of Campeche, the western Caribbean Sea, the
Gulf of Mexico, the US Gulf Coast states, and into the Sargasso Sea and
the Bahamas. The thickest smoke in the layer was located over the western
Gulf Coast through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec into the Gulf of Tehuantepec
and southwest out across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Thicker smoke was
observed across southwestern Mexico and from the western Caribbean north
through the area between the Yucatan and Cuba and into the eastern Gulf
of Mexico.

Hosley

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.