DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z August 31, 2006

California:
The wildfires throughout the multiple national forest's in northwest
California continue to produce moderately dense to locally dense smoke
that is moving to the west to the Pacific ocean.

Montana/North Dakota/Wyoming:
Fires in Sweet Grass county of Montana are still burning and producing
moderately dense plumes of smoke moving to the west and has covered
western Montana and northwestern corner of North Dakota. A fire in Park
county of northern Wyoming is producing a moderately dense plume of
smoke that is moving to the northeast across the border to Montana.

Montana/upper and middle Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes/central
and eastern Canada/northern New England:
The fires in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California, and Montana
in Northwestern US as well as those fires in southern British Columbia and
southern Manitoba in Canada have produced a massive area of moderately
dense to locally dense smoke which has covered western Montana/upper
and middle Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes/central and eastern
Canada/northern New England. The most dense portion of the smoke is
distributed into all the Ontario province of Canada.


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Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.