DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z July 14, 2006
US Southwest: The large fire north of Palm Springs CA continues to produce an area of smoke that has moved both southwest and off the southern California coast between Los Angeles and northern San Diego to the islands of Santa Catalina and San Clemente and to the northeast across Las Vegas and the southeastern tip of Nevada. Northern US: A few fires east of Billings Montana and near Sheridan Wyoming are producing an extensive plume of smoke that is dense over southeastern MT and then thins as it moves across northwestern and south central South Dakota and then expands to cover much of eastern Nebraska and extreme western Iowa and northeastern Kansas. GLS