Wednesday, April 24, 2024

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0240Z April 25, 2024

SMOKE:
Southeastern United States...
Several light to moderate smoke plumes were observed across the
southeastern CONUS. The smoke from these agricultural burns were generally
moving eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean.

Florida...
Numerous agricultural burns near and south of Lake Okeechobee were
observed emitting light smoke. The smoke was generally moving westward
at the surface and south-southeastward for deeper smoke plumes. A large
amount of heavy smoke was observed in the panhandle of Florida, generally
moving to the south into the Gulf of Mexico.

Central North America…
Light remnant smoke was observed across the southern Prairie Provinces,
Great Plains, and southeastern CONUS. The likely parent fire activity
was located across the Prairie Provinces and the Upper Midwest. Across
the southern and southeastern CONUS, there could be contributions from
the smoke moving northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.

AEROSOL/SMOKE:
Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Sea/Central-Southern Mexico/Cuba/Jamaica/Central
America/Pacific Ocean...
A large area of light to moderate density smoke attributed to widespread
seasonal fire activity throughout central-southern Mexico, Central
America,  and northern South America extended from the Gulf of Mexico
to the western portion of the Caribbean Sea, central-southern Mexico,
Central America and into the Pacific Ocean off the southwest coastline
of Mexico. The densest smoke resides over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
and off the southwestern Mexico and Guatemalan Coasts.


DUST:
Caribbean Sea/Atlantic Ocean…
Saharan dust was observed over the central and eastern Caribbean and
northern South America. The Saharan dust was also moving westward toward
Puerto Rico. There also exists Saharan dust that extends westward from
the Sahara just out over the far eastern Atlantic.



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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