DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z March 28th, 2025
SMOKE: Midwest and Southeastern United States/Atlantic Seaboard... An area of light to moderate density smoke attributed to previous and current day fire activity was seen stretching east across the Midwestern and Southeastern regions of the United States towards the Atlantic Seaboard and into the northwestern Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. Southern Florida... Several prescribed agricultural burns just south of Lake Okeechobee were observed this evening emitting light density plumes that were seen blowing west across the state towards the Gulf of America. North Carolina/South Carolina... Several large wildfires located in western North Carolina and South Carolina were observed emitting moderate to heavy density smoke plumes that were seen dispersing eastward in direction throughout the evening. Cuba... Light density smoke from agricultural and prescribed burning across Cuba was observed mainly moving southwestern across the Cayman Islands. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Central and Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean/Gulf of America/Bay of Campeche/Yucatan Peninsula... An area of predominantly light density smoke and aerosols, attributed to scattered agricultural burning, volcanic emissions, and industrial sources throughout Central and Southern Mexico was observed this evening across the southwestern coast of Mexico near northern Central America. It was then seen extending west into the Pacific Ocean and east into the southern Gulf of America near the Bay of Campeche and the Yucatan Peninsula and extending north upwards to the southern coast of Texas. BLOWING DUST: Nevada… Two prominent areas of blowing dust were observed originating from western Nevada moving northeast into Idaho. Ferrante 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