DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z October 16, 2024
SMOKE: Intermountain West/Great Plains/southern Prairie Provinces/Gulf Coast/Gulf of Mexico/Florida/Mid-Atlantic Coast... Wildfire activity observed mainly across Idaho, western Montana, and northern Wyoming was continuing to produce moderate smoke overnight contributing to a layer of light to moderate density smoke that was moving northeastward into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, from where the smoke was moving south across the Great Plains states and across Texas and northern Mexico into the Gulf coast and Gulf of Mexico. A frontal system was observed moving south across the southeast, shunting all smoke southward and southeastward to the Mid-Atlantic coast. The smoke layer extends further east across Florida and the Bahamas to over Bermuda and south of Newfoundland. Some of the smoke may be moving southward from the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of Tehuantepec. A small amount of light remnant smoke was also observed across the Tennessee Valley and southern Appalachians, likely the result of agricultural burning across the Mississippi Valley and southeastern CONUS. Lower Mississippi Valley/Louisiana Gulf Coast… Agricultural burning fro the Missouri Bootheel into Louisiana was observed producing scattered light smoke plumes this morning. The smoke from these burns was mainly moving southwestward from parent fire activity. 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