DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z APRIL 26, 2008
Florida: Fires in Polk, Hernando, and Palm Beach Counties produced plumes of light or moderate smoke that extended westward. Mississippi: The fire near the border of Wayne and Jones Counties produced a plume of light smoke that extended northward through several other counties but the fire seems to have largely dissipated in the past few hours. Gulf of Mexico: Light smoke mixed with haze from previous days agricultural fires in Mexico is seen in the western Gulf. There are two prominent areas, one north of Tabasco, Mexico, and the other east of southern Texas. Texas: Light smoke is moving primarily northeastward but also southward from a fire in Brewster County. Arizona: A fire in Greenlee County is producing a fairly large plume of moderate to dense smoke that is spreading eastward into New Mexico. Western U.S. and Pacific Ocean: Smoke far above ground level originating from last week's Russian agricultural burns possibly mixed with Asian dust/sand is over part of the northwestern and western U.S. but it is difficult to differentiate this smoke from haze with any reliability. Areas likely to be under at least some of this smoke are northern California, Oregon and Washington and neighboring parts of the Pacific Ocean as well as Idaho, northern Nevada and northern Utah. The area of the Pacific off the coast of British Columbia and the Pacific near the coast of northern Baja California might also be affected by this smoke.