DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1600Z August 14, 2005
Southwest Oregon: The Blossom Complex fire is producing a narrow line of dense smoke moving wsw-ward across the Siskiyon National Forest to the Pacific coast. Once it reaches the coast cloud cover obscures any further coverage. Minnesota/North Dakota/Ontario/Manitoba. An area of thin smoke is moving ese-ward across the region and most likely can be contributed to the numerous fires in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The northern edge of the smoke stretches from just north of Whitemouth Lake in southeastern Manitoba to Pickle Lake in southwestern Ontario. The southern edge of the smoke stretches from the Sheyenne National Grassland in southeastern North Dakota to Savannah State Forest in north central Minnesota. The eastern border of the smoke ranges from Lake Nipigon southward to the far western edges of Lake Superior. Alaska and western Canada: A large area of thick smoke stretches across central Alaska from Kotzebue Sound across the Norton Sound southward to Bristol Bay and eastward into the Yukon Territory to about the Wernecke Mountains. The thick smoke then moves southward along southwestern Yukon Territory into Northwest British Columbia to near the Skeena Mountains. The thinner smoke covers the rest of Alaska and the Yukon Territory but becomes very difficult to see across the western Northwest Territories due to cloud cover. The overall smoke coverage then moves southward across central/southern British Columbia with the northwest sections covered by the thicker smoke. Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Washington/Montana/Idaho// North Dakota: An area of dense smoke stretches across southern Alberta eastward into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba ranging from Edmonton eastward to Lake Manitoba. The smoke then moves ese-ward into the northern U.S. with the western edge near Moses Lake in eastern Washington and across northern Idaho and Montana and Northeastern North Dakota with the eastern edge near Minot. Kibler