DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z January 26, 2021

SMOKE:
Central/South Florida...
Agricultural burning and seasonal fire activity was observed over parts
of Central and Southern Florida. Light density smoke was observed from
most of the fire activity progressing northward ahead of a weather system
in this evening’s GOES satellite imagery.

Northern/Central California...
Agricultural burning and seasonal fire activity was observed over parts
of Northern and Central California, however cloud cover from a weather
system in the region made smoke analysis difficult in this evening’s
GOES satellite imagery.

Southern and Eastern Coastal Mexico/Southwestern Gulf of Mexico...
A large region of light density smoke was observed over parts of Coastal
Southern/Eastern Mexico from seasonal fire activity. Light density
smoke was also observed from offshore drilling platforms over parts
of the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico in this evening’s GOES visible
satellite imagery

DUST:
Western Texas/Northern Mexico...
The latest GOES visible satellite imagery observed small regions
of blowing dust over parts of Western Texas progressing eastward and
blowing dust was also observed over parts of Northern Mexico progressing
northeastward in this evening’s GOES satellite imagery.

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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.