DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z May 12, 2008
Florida: Several fires erupted along the east coast late in the day. Generally moderate smoke plumes extended up to 180 km to the east of these fires in Volusia County, and in northern and southern Brevard County. Gulf of Mexico: Residual smoke from fires in Central America mixed with haze that has been progressing from west to east across the US the last two days was moving eastward across the northern third of the Gulf of Mexico in advance of a frontal boundary. Arizona: Light smoke extended 50 km northeast of the Twenty-Two Wfu in Coconino County. Southwest: A large area of mid to upper level haze of unknown composition and origin has again invaded the US along and ahead of a frontal boundary that stretched from central California into southern Nevada and across central Utah into Colorado.