DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z JANUARY 12, 2009

South Florida:
Fires, most likely from the sugarcane fields to the south and southeast
of Lake Okeechobee, produced small puffs of thin smoke which combined as
they moved to the northeast across Lake Okeechobee and eventually off
the southeast Florida coast just north of West Palm Beach. A separate
fire in northern Collier County of southwestern Florida was responsible
for a burst of moderately dense to locally dense smoke which also moved
off in a northeasterly direction.

Louisiana:
A fire in Natchitoches Parish of west central Louisiana produced a long
thin smoke plume which was blown to the south.

Oklahoma:
Several fires in southeastern Oklahoma emitted thin localized smoke
plumes which moved to the south-southeast.

Northwestern Mexico:
A cluster of fires south of the Arizona border in northwestern Mexico
produced thin to locally moderately dense smoke plumes which moved
quickly to the south and out over the Gulf of 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.