DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1500Z August 02, 2005
Alaska: Smoke is mixed with fog over roughly the western third of Alaska. The smoke is west of a line roughly stretching from Cape Lisburne to Ruby to Bristol Bay. Pacific Northwest/Southwest Canada: An area of thin smoke was seen over much of northern Washington, extreme northern Idaho into southeast British Columbia and southwest Alberta. The smoke extends into the Pacific Ocean west of Vancouver Island and was generated from the fires in Alaska. Ruminski