DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0100Z August 13, 2005
Northwest US: Fires across the Pacific Northwest and Inter-Mountain West are producing an area of moderate smoke moving southward along the Idaho/Oregon border to near Ontario and Payetta. The smoke has thinned out across most of central Idaho and is getting more difficult to see due to clouds moving into the region. Smoke can no longer be seen in western Montana. Southwest Oregon/California/Pacific Ocean: The Blossom Complex fire in southwest Oregon is producing a dense area of smoke throughout the Siskiyou National Forecast and southward to near Smith River in extreme northwestern California. The lighter smoke still extends southward along the California coast to near Point Reyes and just off the coast to Point Conception. Alaska and northwest Canada: The numerous fires in Alaska are continuing to produce a large area of dense smoke from Kotzebue and Norton Sounds southward to the Taylor Mountains and eastward across Alaska Ranges/Fairbanks and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and then into northern/central Yukon Territory. It becomes less dense as it moves southeastward across the Selwyn Mountains and Great Slave Lake and into northern Alberta. The smoke further thins out as it moves southward across British Columbia and into Washington State and is becoming quite hard to see across central Alberta. Kibler