DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230z September 04, 2006
California: The wildfires located within the multiple National Forest's in northwest California continue to produce very dense smoke that is moving to the north northwest and up the coast through Oregon and into southern Washington. Smaller fires in central California are producing light smoke that is moving to the north, but not far from the source. Oregon: Fires in central and western Oregon continue to produce smoke ranging from moderately dense to very dense, that is moving directly to the north into southern and central Washington. The biggest fires seem to fall within Lane and Deschutes counties. Washington/British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba: The large wildfire that is located in the Umatilla National Forest of southeast Washington continues to produce massive amounts of very dense smoke that is fanning out to the north and to the east. The extremely large wildfire burning through Okanogan National Forest has flared up again and is producing two very dense smoke plumes. The first smoke plume is located on the western side of the forest and is moving directly north through southern British Columbia, and into central and northern British Columbia. The second plume on the eastern side of Okanogan National Forest is moving north northeast through southeast British Columbia, into central and northern Alberta (where is spreads throughout the entire province), up through northern Saskatchewan crossing over Lake Athabasca and into northcentral Manitoba. Idaho/Montana: The fires throughout northern and central Idaho continue to burn and spread today. They are producing moderately dense to very dense smoke in massive quantities. The smoke is not travelling to far from the fires, but some lighter smoke has spread into the western parts of Montana. Fires in southwest and western Montana are producing moderately dense to dense smoke that covers almost all of western Montana. Manitoba/Ontario: A large fire just on the southwest side of the Hudson Bay flared up today and is producing quite a bit of dense smoke that was originally fanning out to the northeast, but winds rapidly changed the direciton of the smoke, and it is now moving directly to the south. Several fires in central Ontario are producing moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving to the east. Fires along the central border of Ontario and Manitoba are producing moderately dense to dense smoke that is moving directly to the east into central Ontario. Banks