Thursday, April 18, 2024

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0102Z April 19, 2024


SMOKE:
Eastern United States..
A large area of mostly light density smoke attributed seasonal fires
and residual smoke was seen around the eastern U.S. from New Jersey
to Georgia and continued just off the Atlantic coast. Two larger fires
were burning in western Virginia and eastern West Virginia created some
smaller areas of moderate density smoke.

Florida...
Agricultural burning were noted throughout Florida releasing mostly
light to moderate density smoke that was observed moving generally west.

Arizona...
A wildfire in eastern Arizona was detected today but cloud cover later
today precluded further smoke analysis.

New Brunswick...
A fire in New Brunswick could be seen through cloud cover this afternoon
releasing at least light density smoke that was generally moving south
over the Atlantic Ocean.


AEROSOL/SMOKE:
Central-Southern Mexico/Central America/Yucatan Peninsula/Gulf of
Mexico/Jamaica/Cuba/Caribbean Sea/Pacific Ocean...
Ongoing widespread seasonal fire activity throughout central-southern
Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, Central America and northern South America
contributed to a large mass of light density smoke with large areas of
moderate smoke and aerosols were observed over central/southern Mexico,
northern Central America, the majority of the Gulf of Mexico and the
Pacific Ocean off the southwest coastline of Mexico. Aerosols from a
composite of gas flaring activity in the Bay of Campeche contributed to
the expansive area of aerosol/smoke.


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