Cause of haze/smoke in US Gulf?

See this image, taken from the afternoon visible (full disk)
GOES shot of the americas.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NA_SNIPPET.jpg

It's been this way on and off since Katrina.

Very bad haze and smoke from NO though east Florida, on out
off the SE US and into the ocean as a diseased tendril of
brown ****.

It's about as bad as I've seen.

I live in WI., and last week a stagnant air pattern brought
this air up to our neck of the woods. Very bad, there were
actually air quality warnings from all the particulates --
something I can never remember happening from years past.

It was disgusting.

Any ideas on the cause? Usually if it's a forest fire the
source is easy to locate ... I can see none here.

-Eric B

PS - Also check out this snippet from same satellite shot.
This time south america. The burning has been long and extreme
this year.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NSA_SNIPPET.jpg

Ooops, last link should be:

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918SA_SNIPPET.jpg

Image(s) from Sept. 18th.

Hi Eric,

I don't know the answer to your question about the haze. However i am=20
interested in your source for the high resolution satellite weather=20
images. Where are they from??

-Florian

Florian wrote:
Hi Eric,

I don't know the answer to your question about the haze. However i am
interested in your source for the high resolution satellite weather
images. Where are they from??

-Florian

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/auth.html
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/

After checking high res MODIS imagery from the
Gulf and checking the news it appears the people
hardest hit by Katrina (Mobile thru Biloxi) are
burning off a lot of the debris.

At least that's my best guess. The pollution has
whacked large parts of the US east of the Mississippi.

(image from last week
http://www.fractalfreak.com/wx/0915HAZE.jpg

-Eric B

wrote:
See this image, taken from the afternoon visible (full disk)
GOES shot of the americas.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NA_SNIPPET.jpg

It's been this way on and off since Katrina.

Very bad haze and smoke from NO though east Florida, on out
off the SE US and into the ocean as a diseased tendril of
brown ****.

Possibly dust from the Sahara Desert. I know that a big wad of dust
was crossing the Atlantic last week.

Here in the northeastern Caribbean, we've had a few really nasty Sahara
days in recent weeks. On the worst of those days, volcanic ash was
present as well; Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, and Montserrat i call 'em.
(Four HorseMs of the Haze?)


Clear skies!

--
------------------- Richard Callwood III --------------------
~ U.S. Virgin Islands ~ USDA zone 11 ~ 18.3N, 64.9W ~
~ eastern Massachusetts ~ USDA zone 6 (1992-95) ~
--------------- http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/ ---------------

At least that's my best guess. The pollution has
whacked large parts of the US east of the Mississippi.

(image from last week
http://www.fractalfreak.com/wx/0915HAZE.jpg

-Eric B


That's bloody disgusting. Is all of that pollutants and smoke-haze?

wrote:
See this image, taken from the afternoon visible (full disk)
GOES shot of the americas.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NA_SNIPPET.jpg

It's been this way on and off since Katrina.

Very bad haze and smoke from NO though east Florida, on out
off the SE US and into the ocean as a diseased tendril of
brown ****.

It's about as bad as I've seen.

I live in WI., and last week a stagnant air pattern brought
this air up to our neck of the woods. Very bad, there were
actually air quality warnings from all the particulates --
something I can never remember happening from years past.

It was disgusting.

Any ideas on the cause? Usually if it's a forest fire the
source is easy to locate ... I can see none here.

-Eric B

PS - Also check out this snippet from same satellite shot.
This time south america. The burning has been long and extreme
this year.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NSA_SNIPPET.jpg

According to this, Ophelia is the cause.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/wea...news-hurricane

PS - Also check out this snippet from same satellite shot.
This time south america. The burning has been long and extreme
this year.

http://www.fractalfreak.com/astro/0918NSA_SNIPPET.jpg

According to this, Ophelia is the cause.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/wea...news-hurricane

Yep, only the US to blame, not the sahara, not China, not no body but the US