DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0200Z August 11, 2005
Washington/Oregon/Idaho/Montana: Numerous fires are producing moderate smoke across eastern Washington and northeastern Oregon and moving east into central Idaho and western Montana. The smoke spreads as far north as interstate 90 and as far south as Boise National Forest in Idaho. The smoke begin to thin out in western Montana as it stretches just east of Great Falls and the Little Belt Mountains. Alaska and western Canada: The numerous fires in Alaska and Yukon Territory are producing a large area of moderate to thick smoke. The smoke extends from central Alaska north into the Beaufort Sea and spreads eastward into northern and central Yukon and Northwest Territories to just west of Great Bear Lake. The southern extent of the smoke in the territories ranges to the Pelly Mountains in Yukon Territory and the Horn Plateau in the Northwest Territories. Kibler