DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z May 05, 2007
The only smoke visible in satellite imagery is located in the southeastern United States. This is due to the thick weather clouds across the US. Georgia/Florida/Bahamas: Fires located in Atkinson and Charlton counties, in southern georgia are producing a great amount of very dense smoke that is combining with very dense smoke being produced by a large fire in Flagler county of northeastern Florida. The smoke produced by these three fires is spreading out in all different directions. The majority of dense to very dense smoke is located in northern Florida and southern Georgia. There is however, some dense smoke along Georgia's and Florida's Atlantic Coast as well as just north of the Bahama Islands. Light smoke extends from northern Georgia, into western South Carolina, down the Atlantic Coast just north of the Bahamas, covering most of Florida and into the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Smoke can also be seen in the southwest Gulf of Mexico that has been produced by the massive amount of fires located throughtout the Yucatan Peninsula. Banks