DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z January 22, 2026
SMOKE: Eastern United States... Agricultural fires continued in the Mississippi Valley from northeast Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. A few individual plumes were observed in Georgia. Much cloud cover throughout the east obscured the full extent of a large area of light smoke that was drifting northeast from Tennessee and Kentucky towards the Mid-Atlantic and up the coast towards Maine. Eastern Mexico... Light smoke was observed moving east and offshore from the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Smoke drifted across the Gulf and central Florida where it appeared to mix with the large area of light smoke in the eastern United States as it moved northeast along the Atlantic coast. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Pacific Ocean... An area of light-density smoke was observed across the southern coast of Mexico which moved offshore to the southwest into the Pacific. Mills 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 Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov