DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 26, 2005
Central/Southern Alberta/Montana: An area of thin smoke stretching from western Alberta south along 111W into north central Montana is wrapping around the west side of a well defined cyclone moving from Saskatchewan into western Manitoba. The smoke has gotten harder to see in GOES 12 and 10 imagery since this afternoon. Idaho/Western Montana. Numerous fires in the Clear Water Mountains of central Idaho is producing an area of moderately dense smoke. The smoke is moving from central eastern Idaho into western Montana to near interstate 90 and just south of Missoula. Nevada: The Barrel fire burning in northwest Nevada is causing a thin area of smoke moving east northeastward across extreme southeast Oregon to near the Steen Mountains. Oregon: A dense area of smoke from a fire near Cave Junction is moving northward across the Klamath Mountains. Another fire near Power just south of Myrtle Point is producing an area of thick smoke moving north to just north of Eugene. Northern California The Harding fire near Portola in the Plumas National Forest is producing a thick area of smoke moving northward. The width of the smoke stretches from about Eagle Lake into western Nevada in the Smoke Creek Desert. A thin area of smoke from a fire near Willow is moving north to near Red Bluff. Kibler