Saturday, February 27, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z February 27, 2021

SMOKE:
South Florida...
Agricultural burning activity was observed mainly south of Lake
Okeechobee in South Florida. Light density smoke was observed from the
fire activity progressing northwestward in this morning's GOES visible
satellite imagery.

Mexico and Western Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Pacific Ocean...
A large region of light density smoke was observed over most of Coastal
Eastern Mexico, parts of Southern Mexico, and out over parts of the
Western Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Campeche. Light density smoke was
also observed over parts of Southwestern Mexico and the Eastern Pacific
Ocean in this morning's GOES visible satellite imagery.

DUST:
Eastern/Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean...
A large region of Saharan Dust was observed across most of the Eastern
and Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Saharan dust was also observed well
west of the region just to the east of the Eastern Caribbean Islands in
this morning's GOES visible satellite imagery.

Sambucci


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:   http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS:    ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML:    http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
        http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov