DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600z September 01, 2006
Great Lakes/Ontario/Quebec: An area of remnant smoke can be seen over parts of eastern Wisconsin, the upper peninsula of Michigan and Lakes Superior and Hudson. The smoke also covers portions of southeast Ontario, James Bay, the eastern portion of the length of Hudson Bay and western Quebec. The smoke over the US and the Great Lakes is mainly thin while much of the smoke over Canada is moderately dense. A separate area of thin smoke is mixed with a cloud mass over northwest Ontario and extreme eastern Manitoba. All of the smoke originated from the numerous fires in the western US. Montana: Moderately dense smoke, with locally dense smoke in the valleys, is seen over Park and Sweet Grass counties in southwest Montana. The smoke covers most of these counties and is slowing moving to the east. Idaho: Several fires in central Idaho, mainly in Valley, Idaho and Custer counties, are producing smoke which has mainly settled in the valleys in the vicinity of the fires. The smoke is locally dense. The smoke that is escaping the valleys is mainly thin and drifting to the west. Washington: A large fire in southern Columbia county is producing a moderately dense to locally dense smoke plume that is drifting to the west southwest along the Oregon/Washington border and reaches nearly to the Pacific coast. The fire is Okanogan county is producing moderately dense smoke in the local area that is drifting to the west within about 30 km of the fires. Oregon/California: The large fires over Trinity and Siskiyou counties are producing moderately dense to locally dense smoke in the valleys that is moving to the northwest. The smoke stretches from the fires into southwest Oregon and into the Pacific about 75 km off the central Oregon coast. Ruminski