DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z December 3, 2006

Louisiana/Mississippi/Florida:
Around a dozen or so smoke producing fires were detected across southern
Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and the western Florida Panhandle. Most
of these fires were emitting relatively thin areas of smoke which were
moving in a southerly direction. Moderately dense smoke though was
observed moving south from a fire in Santa Rosa County of the western
Florida Panhandle while locally dense smoke embedded within a larger
mass of light to moderately dense smoke was spreading southward from a
fire in eastern Vernon Parish of western Louisiana.

Arizona:
A narrow plume of mainly thin smoke was moving to the south-southeast from
a fire in eastern Yavapai County of central Arizona. Thin to moderately
dense smoke from fires in the far southern portions of Navajo and Apache
Counties of east central Arizona had conglomerated as the entire mass
moved to the east-southeast toward the Arizona-New Mexico border.

California:
Several rather brief bursts of smoke were detected moving quickly to
the south from fires in Colusa and Butte Counties of central California.

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Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.