DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 28, 2006
Washington/British Columbia/Idaho/Western Montana: The large fires in Okanogan County of Washington continue to burn and along with another significant fire slightly to the southwest in Chelan County are responsible for a large mass of moderately dense to locally dense smoke (closer to the fires) which has spread east NE this evening into south central British Columbia of southwestern Canada, all of Okanogan county, and northern portion of Chelan county of Washington. Fires in central Columbia county of southeastern Washington are generating moderately dense areas of smoke that is extending from fire points to both south and north and has covered the whole southeastern counties of Washington. A big fire along the border between Idaho and Montana at central Clearwater county of Idaho is producing a moderately dense swath of smoke that is moving east NE and has covered east 1/3 of Clearwater county and Missoula and Valley counties in western Montana. Three fires in Idaho, Valley, and Boise counties of Idaho line up vertically and are producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that is moving mainly east and has covered southern Idaho county, almost all of Valley county, northern Boise county, and eastern Custer county in central Idaho. Oregon/California/Nevada: Five fires in northeastern and southwestern Grant, east central Harney, three-county corner of Jackson, Klamath, and Douglas, and northwestern corner of Linn in Oregon are burning and producing moderately dense plumes of smoke moving mainly east NE. Especially, the smoke from the two fires in Grant county has covered all the county with locally dense plume. For a number of days now the fires in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in northwestern California continue to emit very locally dense smoke which has had a history of spreading westward during this morning and evening and has covered all the northwestern corner of California. The thickest smoke is especially visible in the valleys of southwestern Siskiyou, northern Trinity, and northern Humboldt Counties. The fire in Tuolumne county of west central California is still burning and producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke which moved northwest firstly, then extended along the edge of the valley. A small moderately dense smoke plume can be seen from this evening's satellite imagery moving to the south from an active fire in central Lincoln County of southeastern Nevada. Mexico: A fire near the western border of Mexico and California is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that has extended about 60 km to the east. Zhong