DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z March 07, 2025
SMOKE: Gulf Coast States/Bahamas… The most significant smoke production today was observed from agricultural burning activity from Texas into Florida and North Carolina. Smoke was moving east-southeast from burns in Mississippi and eastward, whereas smoke from fires in Louisiana, Texas, and eastern Oklahoma was observed moving northward to north-northeastward. It should be noted that, due to the detection of a moderate density of burning activity co-located with increasing cloud cover throughout the day, more smoke may be present across the rest of the central Plains and Ozarks regions than is analyzed. Central Mexico… A handful of fires across central Mexico (Durango and Zacatecas) were observed producing moderate density smoke moving off toward the northeast, approaching the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon at sundown. BLOWING DUST: Northern Chihuahua/New Mexico/Texas… Moderate amounts of blowing dust were observed being transported northeastward from sources in northern Chihuahua, New Mexico, and far southeastern Colorado. The dust was seen as far northeastward as Nebraska and Kansas. Desert Southwest… Light density blowing dust was observed being kicked up from sources across the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. The kicked up dust was observed moving northeastward. AEROSOL/SMOKE/DUST: Central and Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean/Gulf of America/Bay of Campeche... An area of predominantly light density smoke, dust, and other aerosols attributed to agricultural burning, remnant dust from many sources from California to Mexico over the past few days, and industrial sources throughout Central and Southern Mexico was observed today covering an area extending from the tropical Pacific Ocean to the western North Atlantic. The area of aerosol was seen being drawn northward on the eastern side of a cyclone off the US East Coast, shunted southward across the southern Gulf of America and northwestern Caribbean by the attendant cold front, and drawn northward again across the western Gulf of America by another system over the central CONUS. A gap wind event is also drawing this aerosol layer southward out across the Gulf of Tehuantepec and out across the Pacific. Some contributions from the southern coast of Mexico and Central America were being drawn southwestward out across the open Pacific Ocean. 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