DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1605Z October 25, 2021
SMOKE:
Southeastern U.S./Lower Mississippi Valley...
Light density remnant smoke from recent agricultural burning activity
was observed over parts of the Southeastern U.S. and Lower Mississippi
Valley. Cloud cover from a weather system progressing through the region
made the extent of the remnant smoke difficult to determine in this
morning’s GOES visible satellite imagery.
DUST:
Central and Eastern Tropical Atlantic/Western Atlantic and Eastern
Caribbean Sea...
A large region of Saharan dust was observed over the Central and Eastern
tropical Atlantic. Light density Saharan dust was also observed over
parts of the Eastern Caribbean Sea including the Lesser Antilles and to
the northeast of Puerto Rico over the Western Atlantic in this morning
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