DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z April 14th, 2025
SMOKE: Southeastern CONUS/Bahamas/Cuba... From Mississippi into the Carolinas and Florida, scattered smoke-producing fire activity was observed this morning. The light to moderate smoke plumes produced by this activity was observed moving clockwise around a sprawling area of high pressure centered north of the Bahamas. The most dense smoke was being emitted from a fire on the northern end of Great Abaco in the Bahamas, while the greatest density of smoke plume production was centered around Lake Okeechobee. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Central and Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean/Gulf of America/Bay of Campeche/Yucatan Peninsula/Caribbean Sea/Central and Eastern CONUS/Ontario... An expansive area of light to moderate density smoke was observed blanketing an area from the tropical East Pacific and Cuba to the western Gulf of America, the Mississippi Valley, and the Great Lakes. The vast majority of this aerosol layer is comprised of some from seasonal and prescribed burning across southern and eastern Mexico, Cuba, and the central/southeastern CONUS with some also from industrial sources in southern Mexico. The thickest smoke was seen being emitted from a fire in southern southern Oaxaca, moving south-southwest then west-southwest as the smoke plume moves out over the Pacific. This layer was mainly being drawn northward by the aforementioned sprawling high north of the Bahamas and a low pressure system over the northwestern Great Lakes, with some of the southern portions being drawn west-southwestward into the tropical East Pacific. 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