Monday, May 13, 2024

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1805Z May 13, 2024

SMOKE:
British Columbia/Northwest Territories/Alberta/Saskatchewan...
Numerous large wildfires located in the northeast corner of British
Columbia and along the southern border of the Northwest Territories that
have been active for several days now were observed producing large plumes
of thick density smoke that were seen blowing eastward in direction. These
large plumes eventually extended eastward into Alberta and Saskatchewan,
dispersing into a large area of light to moderate smoke that extended
southeastward into the north-central and Great Lakes region of the United
States, extending as far east as Vermont. This mass continued moving south
along the east coast and eventually reached as far south as Virginia.

Oregon...
A light density smoke plume was observed emanating from a suspected
wildfire located in the south central region of Oregan, it was seen
dispersing slightly westward in direction. This suspected fire was
present yesterday as well.

AEROSOL/SMOKE:
Gulf of Mexico/Coastal Atlantic/Caribbean Sea/Central-Southern
Mexico/Central America/Pacific Ocean...
A large area of predominantly light to moderate density smoke attributed
to widespread seasonal fire activity throughout central-southern Mexico,
Central America and northern South America was observed this morning from
the Gulf of Mexico, northeast along the Coastal Atlantic and extending
east into the northern Atlantic Ocean. The large area aerosol/smoke
continued expanding through the western portion of the Caribbean sea,
central-southern Mexico, Central America and into the Pacific Ocean
off the southwest coastlines of Mexico and Guatemala. Areas of higher
density smoke and aerosols were observed over northern Central America
and the Gulf of Mexico. Aerosols from a composite of volcanic emissions
and industrial sources in Mexico, and gas flaring activity in the Bay
of Campeche contributed to the expansive area of aerosol/smoke observed
throughout these regions today.

Willkens

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