DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0030Z September 10, 2005
Midwest through Mid-Atlantic: A large area of thin smoke from fires in Idaho and Montana is suspended in the middle to upper troposphere over much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region. The smoke covers all of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee along with a large portion of central and eastern Missouri, extreme eastern Iowa, extreme SW Michigan (SW of Kalamazoo), All of Ohio except NW of a line from Toledo to Wheeling,WV... this smoke is affected by weak flow on the upstream portion of the Central Plains ridge. A band of smoke also is being moved east into the entrance of a jet that is exiting off the Eastern US. This band is of similar consistency and covers all of West Virginia, all of Virginia except the SW panhandle, all of Maryland, the Delmarva peninsula and Cape May of S New Jersey. The boarders of Pennsylvania and North Carolina define the smoke area very well. Lower Mississippi River Valley: Multiple agricultural fires are producing very small plumes of low to mid-level thin to moderately dense smoke across the Mississippi River valley from the Bootheel of Missouri south to Vicksburg, MS. Smoke is drifting west around the southern side of the high. Montana and the Southern Prairie of Canada: Dense smoke from yesterday's burning from fires in Idaho and Montana has drifted toward the NE up and over the peak of the upper-level ridge affecting the Central Plains. The smoke can be seen in the NE corner of Montana into and covering the southern one-third of Saskatchewan, from the northern extents of Lakes Manitoba and Winnepeg south to the US boarder in Manitoba, and SW Ontario from the bend in the Ontario/Manitoba boarder to Lake Nipigon to the coast of Lake Superior. Gallina