DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 29, 2006
Northwestern US and Southwestern Canada: Fires in Northwestern US including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana are burning crazy and producing massive areas of dense smoke that is moving with the wind to the northeast. The smoke plumes from these fires are connected together this evening and has covered northern California, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, the panhandle area of Idaho, northern Wyoming, and all of Montana in US sector an southern British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan provinces of Southwestern Canada. The most dense portions of the smoke arr influencing the northeastern areas of those fires repectively. The locations of these fires are as follows: 1) Tripod Complex in Northern Washington; 2) Columbia county in southeastern Washington; 3) South central Sweet Grass county in southern Montana; 4) Clearwater county in northwestern Idaho; 5) A fire chain in southern Idaho county, all the Valley county, and northwestern Custer county of central Idaho; 6) Power county in southeastern Idaho; 7) Grant, Jefferson, Wasco, and Deschutes counties in Oregon; 8) Siskiyou and Trinity counties in Northern California; 9) Several fires in southern British Columbia; Central and southern California: The fire in Tuolumne county of central California is till burning and producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving northeast. This evening fires in northwestern Riverside county of Souther California are producing very dense plumes of smoke that is moving northeast. The smoke already covered northwestern Riverside and southwestern San Bernardino counties of southern California. North Dakota and southern Manitoba: A lot of small agricultural fires in this areas have been burning and producing very short period of thin plumes of smoke that is mainly moving north. Zhong