DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0225Z MARCH 9, 2006
North Carolina: A fire in NE Onslow County produced a plume of dense smoke that extended eastwward over Carteret and S Craven Counties...then to the southeast over the Atlantic. South Carolina/ Georgia/ Alabama: Widespread agricultural fires were observed in the Southeast. Thin smoke drifted northward from the fires over Burnwell County in South Carolina...Bryan, Long and Jasper Counties in Georgia and Monroe County in Alabama. Florida: Plumes of dense smoke extended to the NW from fires in Collier, Brevard and Osceola Counties while smoke drifted northward from the fires in Dixie and Taylor Counties. Baja California: A fire in northern Baja produced a plume of thin smoke that moved southward to N Gulf of California. Brown