DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 13, 2025
SMOKE: Central and Midwestern United States/Southern Canada/Atlantic Ocean... Light smoke was observed blanketing an area from the tropical Eastern Pacific, southern and eastern Mexico, the central CONUS, the US Gulf Coast, southern Canada, and New England. The source of this area of smoke is wildfire activity in northeastern British Columbia, central Saskatchewan, and southeastern Manitoba, coupled with presumably agricultural burning across the central CONUS and coastal plains of Mexico. The smoke plumes coming from the activity in southeastern Manitoba were contributing thick smoke to the layer that was moving east-north eastward. Another fire in central Saskatchewan was also producing moderate smoke. Fire activity in northeastern British Columbia was obscured by cloud cover, so smoke was not directly observed being emitted. DUST: Nevada... Light blowing dust was observed being moving over eastern Nevada and into Idaho after being kicked up across central Nevada. West Texas… An area of light blowing dust was observed being kicked up across the Permian Basin and being blown east-southeastward. Southern California/southeastern Arizona… Small areas of light blowing dust were observed from near the Salton Sea to the Colorado River basin moving eastward to northeastward. 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:http://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