DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z January 16, 2011
Northeast Gulf of Mexico: The area of remnant light smoke which was seen this morning continued to move to the south and began to dissipate off the coast of Florida's panhandle and over the Gulf of Mexico. The smoke can be attributed to the numerous agricultural fires burning across a good portion of the southeast United States yesterday. Northern Florida: Another band of what is believed to be leftover smoke was noted moving to the northeast across northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia. This possible band of smoke was also likely due to yesterday's numerous fires over the Southeast. Southeastern US: More smoke producing fires were analyzed in satellite imagery again today extending from southeastern Louisiana across the Gulf Coast region to southern Georgia and northern Florida. Central US: Many fires were detected in satellite imagery again today over the Central US, but little smoke was visible. JS THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov