DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0200Z JULY 03, 2005
Alaska: Several fires in central Alaska between the Yukon and the Brooks range are producing areas of smoke generally moving to the east. The smoke is mixed in with clouds making detection difficult. Canada: A broad area of smoke generated over the past few days from the fires in Alaska and the Yukon Territory extends from Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories eastward across northern Saskatchewan/Manitoba, southeast Northwest Territory, the southern half of Hudson Bay and into western Quebec. A 100 mile wide area of smoke drops south terminating near the Quebec/New York border between Massena and Plattsburgh. Pacific Northwest: An area of smoke has circulated down from the Alaskan fires into the Pacific Northwest and extends from southwest Oregon into southwest Idaho and then arcs up to the northeast into west central Montana. Southwest: Numerous large blazes continue to produce areas of thick smoke across much of the Four Corner's region. Large smoke producing fires are seen over southeast Nevada, central and north central Arizona, southwest New Mexico and a new blaze in southwest Colorado. The smoke is mainly moving to the east northeast and is reaching to the front range of the Rockies. Kansas: A very large number of agricultural/control burns are observed across central Kansas. A large number of small smoke plumes are seen with these fires and are moving to the northeast. South Texas: Southeast winds have kicked up a plume of dust from just east of Brownsville and moving to the northwest. Ruminski