DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1620Z November 26, 2024
SMOKE: South Florida: Numerous prescribed agricultural burns were observed today mostly south of Lake Okeechobee with light density smoke spreading north across southern Florida. Southwest Louisiana: A fire burning near the Texas/Louisiana border today was observed emitting a long narrow plume of light to moderately dense smoke well into the Gulf of Mexico. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Western Gulf of Mexico/Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean... An area of light density smoke and aerosols attributed to scattered agricultural burning, gas flaring activity and other industrial sources was observed this evening extending south along the western Gulf of Mexico from southern Texas, through southern Mexico and off the southwestern coastline of Mexico into the eastern Pacific Ocean. JK 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