DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z June 21, 2006.
Southwestern and Central US: A large area of moderately dense smoke from fires in New Mexico and Arizona covers much of the southeast half of New Mexico and extends across the Texas Panhandle into western Oklahoma. Another area of thin to moderately dense smoke from the fires in previous days is seen extending from northeast Oklahoma across southern Missouri and into the Ohio Valley. An area of smoke from a large fire in northern Arizona in the Kaibab National Forest extends eastward from the fire across the four corners region, southern Colorado, eastern Colorado and into southwest Nebraska and western Kansas. Most of this area is thin smoke although there are some patches of moderate density close to the fire, over a small area in south central Colorado and from northeast Colorado into Nebraska. Canada: An area of thin to moderate smoke is seen from northwest Saskatchewan across northern Alberta and into southwest Northwest Territory over Great Slave Lake. The smoke was generated from fires that have been burning around Lake Athabasca for several days. Ruminski