DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z February 5, 2024
SMOKE: Due to cloud cover no areas of significant smoke were visible through satellite imagery today. SMOKE/AEROSOL… Mexico/Central America/Northwest Central America/Pacific Ocean/Caribbean Sea: An area of light to moderate aerosol from a composite of smoke from agricultural burning, volcanic ash, gas flaring in the Bay of Campeche and aerosol from industrial sources was observed blanketing an area from south Texas through western Gulf of Mexico, into parts of eastern and southern Mexico, over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Mexico, northwestern Central America and the western Caribbean Sea. BLOWING DUST… CONUS/Mexico Border Region… Dust of varying density was observed being lofted from south-southeastern Texas and being transported east-southeastward with the leading edge of the largest plume reaching deep into the central Gulf of Mexico as evening approached. A second much smaller plume of moderate blowing dust was observed later in the afternoon moving southeast from southern Texas into the western Gulf of Mexico. East-central Mexico… Areas of thick blowing dust were observed being lofted from the high deserts east and northeast of Mexico City. The blowing dust was moving southwest earlier towards the Pacific coast earlier today. 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