DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 30, 2006
Canada/Northwestern US: Moderately dense smoke from last nights fires in Washington, Idaho, and Montana has traveled through British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and western Ontario in a northeasterly direction. Washington: This morning fires in Okanogan county are producing moderately dense smoke moving east to the Idaho border. Dense smoke from the fires in Columbia county is moving E NE extending into western Montana. Montana: Fires in Park and Sweet Grass counties are producing dense smoke extending 250 miles to the northeast towards North Dakota. California: The fire in San Bernardino county is still burning and producing moderately dense smoke moving northeast across northwestern Arizona, and southern Nevada, into southern Utah. MS