DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z February 8, 2026
SMOKE: Southeast CONUS/Atlantic Ocean/Gulf of America… Agricultural fires were observed across the Southeast CONUS this evening. Active fires south of Lake Okeechobee produced an area of light-to-moderate density smoke drifting southeast into the Atlantic Ocean. Additional smoke plumes, ranging between light-to-heavy density smoke, produced by agricultural fires in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, northern Florida, southern Georgia, and eastern Texas, as well as remnant smoke from previous days, generated a large area of light-density smoke that stretched across the region. Smoke from Alabama, Mississippi, southern Louisiana, and the Florida panhandle extended south to southwest towards the northern Gulf, smoke from southern Georgia drifted southeast towards the Atlantic, and smoke from central Louisiana and eastern Texas moved west. Light-density smoke plumes in South Carolina were also seen drifted southeast towards the Atlantic. Oklahoma… Multiple fires in Oklahoma were observed producing light-density smoke plumes drifting north to northeast. Cuba… Agricultural fires across Cuba were seen producing multiple light-density smoke plumes drifting south into the Caribbean Sea. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Guatemala/Pacific Ocean… Fires within Oaxaca, Mexico, were observed producing light-density smoke that extended southwest into the Pacific Ocean. The smoke merged with a broader area of smoke from scattered fire activity, industrial aerosol emissions, and remnant smoke from previous days moving across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and off the coasts of southwestern Mexico and Guatemala into the Pacific. GL 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