DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0200Z August 12, 2005
Washington/Oregon/Idaho/Montana: Numerous fires over southeast Washington and northern Idaho are producing locally dense smoke in the Clearwater Mountains and near Elk Creek in Idaho and near Pomeroy Washington. The thinner smoke spreads as far north as interstate 90 and as far south as the Boise National Forest in Idaho. The smoke further thins out and reaches just west of Great Falls and near the Little Belt Mountains in Montana. Southwest Oregon/California/Pacific Ocean: The Blossom Complex fire in Southwest Oregon is producing a dense area of smoke reaching just east of Medford, Oregon and across the northwestern California coast. The smoke becomes very thins as it extends southward across the California/Pacific coast to as far south as Half Moon Bay. Alaska and northwest Canada: The numerous fires in Alaska and Yukon Territory are producing a large area of thick smoke. The most dense smoke is mainly between the Alaska and Brooks Ranges and east of a McGrath/Allakaket line and extending eastward into the northern half of the Yukon Territory and to near Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The southern extend of the smoke reaches the Columbia Mountains in British Columbia and just west of Edmonton in Alberta. Kibler