DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z January 22, 2019.

Smoke:
Southeastern U.S...
Seasonal fires scattered across portions of the Southeastern U.S. were
emitting visible smoke plumes of mainly thin density which moved generally
to the southwest. The greatest concentration of smoke was noted over
the southern half of Georgia and over Florida.

Mexico...
Concentrated patches of seasonal burning especially over central and south
central Mexico resulted in areas of thin density smoke over these regions.

DUST:
Southern California...
An area of thin to moderate density blowing dust originated from sources
to the east and southeast of the Salton Sea and moved to the southeast
toward extreme southwestern Arizona.

Arizona/New Mexico...
A swath of rather dense blowing dust spread to the northeast from the
Wilcox Playa in southeastern Arizona. The dust extended into southwestern
New Mexico by sunset. Farther to the east, blowing dust could briefly be
seen spreading to the east from White Sands in south central New Mexico.

Northwestern Mexico...
Additional blowing dust of thin to moderate density was visible spreading
to the southeast from a number of sources in northern Baja and far
northwestern Mexico just south of the Arizona border.

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THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE.
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS.  AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED.  USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:

JPEG:   http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS:    ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML:    http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
        http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

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.