DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z January 28, 2026
SMOKE: South Florida… Multiple agricultural fires produced individual light smoke plumes south of Lake Okeechobee that drifted southwest. The plumes merged into a larger area of light smoke cover across southern Florida. Southeastern United States… Plumes of light-to-moderate smoke from agricultural burns were observed scattered across the southeast from southern Alabama, northern Florida, southern Georgia, and western South Carolina. Along the Gulf coast plumes drifted south, but along the Atlantic the drift shifted east. A larger area of light smoke gathered along the mid-Atlantic and spread northeast along the coast. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Gulf of America/Guatemala/Pacific Ocean... Scattered fire activity across central Mexico and the Pacific coast of Guatemala, as well as remnant smoke and urban aerosol from previous days, generated large areas of light smoke that extended 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