DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z December 3, 2005
Southeastern U.S./Lower Mississippi Valley: Their are numerous agricultural and/or prescribed burns across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Quite a few fires in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are producing small to moderate in size plumes of smoke. The smoke is very thin. Their are a couple of smoke producing fires in South Carolina and Arkansas. South Florida: A large number of fires are burning around Lake Okeechobee in the counties of Palm Beach, Hendry, Okeechobee, Glades and Highlands. A majority of these fires are in Palm Beach and Hendry counties and they are producing only thin smoke. The smoke is moving south into Miami-Dade, Monroe and Broward counties. Arizona/New Mexico: A fire burning in Cochise county in Arizona is producing a thin plume of smoke. The smoke is moving east into Hidalgo county in New Mexico. Oklahoma: Fires burning in Pittsburg and Hughes counties in southeast Oklahoma are emitting thin plumes of smoke moving into Okmulgee, Okfuskee and McIntosh counties. JK