Friday, April 05, 2024

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z April 05, 2024

CORRECTED TO ADD SECTION ON BLOWING DUST

SMOKE:
Central and Southeastern CONUS into the northern Gulf of Mexico…
Widespread agricultural burning across the Central Plains was observed
overnight and this morning. Remnant smoke emissions from yesterday’s
burning activity was observed having reached the Gulf Coast where the
smoke layer bifurcates into an east-southeastward moving stream over
the northeastern Gulf Coast to south over the north-central Gulf of
Mexico. A few active smoke emissions were also observed after sunrise
this morning continuing into the early afternoon. The smoke was moving
around an area of low pressure with smoke generally moving southeastward
over much of the Southeast and Gulf coast states.

Florida Peninsula…
Scattered to widespread agricultural burning around Lake Okeechobee was
observed producing mainly light smoke that was moving southeastward in
the wake of a cold frontal passage.


AEROSOL/SMOKE:
Pacific Ocean/Central America/Southern and Eastern Mexico/Yucatan
Peninsula/Gulf of Mexico/Florida/Northern Caribbean/North Atlantic…
An expansive area of aerosol predominately comprised of smoke with some
other aerosols was seen blanketing an area extending from the Tropical
Pacific and northern South America to Central America, southern Mexico,
the Yucatan Peninsula, the Bay of Campeche, the southern Gulf of
Mexico, far southern Florida, the northern Caribbean, and the North
Atlantic. The main source regions for the smoke are Central America
and southern Mexico. The smoke is generally moving northwestward from
Central America to the Bay of Campeche and the Yucatan, where some smoke
continues moving northwestward along the Coastal Plain of Mexico  while
the rest is being drawn east-northeastward by a frontal system over the
central Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Straits, the Bahamas, and into the
North Atlantic eventually moving over Bermuda.

BLOWING DUST:
Northeastern Arizona/Eastern Utah…
Some light blowing dust was observed moving north to north-northeast
from the Arizona/Utah border into east-central Utah. Another plume of
blowing dust was seen emanating from just northeast of the Mogollon Rim
moving north-northeastward.

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