Smoke Across the GOM?

[SouthFloridawx]

I remember a disco coming from yesterday talking about smoke in the GOM. What could this be from?

000
AXNT20 KNHC 081056
TWDAT

TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
805 AM EDT MON MAY 08 2006

TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION FOR NORTH AMERICA...CENTRAL
AMERICA...THE GULF OF MEXICO...THE CARIBBEAN SEA...NORTHEASTERN
SECTIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA...AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO THE
AFRICAN COAST FROM THE EQUATOR TO 32N. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
IS BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGERY...WEATHER OBSERVATIONS...
RADAR...AND METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS.

...DISCUSSION...
GULF OF MEXICO AND THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN...
MIDDLE/UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION IS CENTERED OVER
GUATEMALA AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY. A BROAD RIDGE AXIS EXTENDS
NORTHWARD FROM THE CIRCULATION TO 24N90W INTO WESTERN
ALABAMA. ANTICYCLONIC FLOW COVERS A LARGE AREA FROM 5N TO
BEYOND 32N BETWEEN 75W AND ABOUT 105W. TROPICAL MOISTURE IS
SPREADING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL MEXICO...E TEXAS...AND
THE NW GULF OF MEXICO. STRONG SUBSIDENCE COVERS THE NW
CARIBBEAN. AT THE SURFACE A 1012 MB LOW IS LOCATED OVER E
GEORGIA WITH A TRAILING STATIONARY FRONT THROUGH SOUTHERN
MISSISSIPPI TO THE UPPER TEXAS COAST. SURFACE PRESSURES ARE LOW
OVER MEXICO WITH A 1002 MB LOW LOCATED NEAR 23N100W. VISIBLE
IMAGERY FROM YESTERDAY INDICATES SMOKE ACROSS ALL OF THE GULF OF
MEXICO EXCEPT THE NE PART.

[terstorm1012]

wildfires in Mexico/And or Florida?

[senorpepr]

Maybe southerngale was having too much fun on her cruise.


Actually, I was looking at some AFWA products... there are a few large fires in southern Mexico. With a southerly wind, the smoke is spreading across the GoM.

[GeneratorPower]

It's wildfires on the Yucatan Peninsula.

[SouthFloridawx]

Thanks for the explinations. I saw it yesterday and noticed that they mentioned a plume coming from cuba and reaching fort myers. It guess it's been dry all along the GOM and surrounding area.

LOL or it could be southerngale having too much fun.

[senorpepr]

wildfires in Mexico/And or Florida?

Looking at satellite and comparing to the NHC bulletin, the Florida nor the Cuban fires are to blame for smoke in the GoM. Smoke from the Florida fires are affecting the eastern shores and the Cuban fires are affecting the Straits of Florida.

[clfenwi]

Earlier discussions referenced fires on the Yuacatan Peninsula

[senorpepr]

Here are the graphics from AFWA...

Area 1 -- Gulf of Mexico
Area 2 -- Florida
Area 3 -- Cuba
Area 4 -- Central America

[gatorcane]

I was in the Tampa Bay area this weekend and it got very hazy, especially today (Sun).

[Aslkahuna]

There is usually a lot of smoke coming from Mexico this time of year as they are fire clearing fields before the monsoon planting also there's a lot of Fires that are set to clear land in southern Mexico.

Steve

[southerngale]

Maybe southerngale was having too much fun on her cruise.

Well, I had to get some souvenirs from Jamaica, ya know?

[SouthFloridawx]

Maybe southerngale was having too much fun on her cruise.

Well, I had to get some souvenirs from Jamaica, ya know?

I knew it!!!!!!

[southerngale]

Ok, seriously. This was on a local news station:

Fires Burning in Latin America Creating Haze in Southeast Texas
( Air Date: 5/9/2006 )

People in and around Southeast Texas have been noticing a “haze” in the area. NOAA Fire and Smoke Meteorologist John Simko tells Hometown News the cause of this haze is happening thousands of miles away.

Simko says this haze is smoke which is originating from a tremendous number of fires burning across Mexico and Central America and have generated a lot of smoke blowing out over the Gulf of Mexico.

A map updated daily by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency seen below shows smoke all over the gulf coast represented in grey.

Hurricanes which brought down a lot of trees in the Yucatan Peninsula left dead vegetation in its wake. Simko says this has provided plenty of fuel for the seasonal wildfires.



http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mo ... s&id=11316

[melhow]

Maybe I was just jonesing for a steak, but I could have sworn that I smelled smoke this morning coming into work. I live near St Pete.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Yeah, I noticed that haze yesterday. It got quite thick for a few hours there between noon and 3pm.

[HurricaneHunter914]

You should see the wild fires in Florida, they've been burning for a month.

[Cat5survivor]

the smell of smoke and haze is over Cocoa Beach. We need alot more rain

[HURAKAN]

By the way, yesterday I read the newspaper that there's a fierce brush fire in Western Cuba, more specifically, Pinar del Río.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Man the whole western hemisphere is on fire! I meant that figuratively.