DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1640z September 06, 2006
United States: Wildfires across the entire northwest portion of the United States have massed one giant area of smoke that stretches across many areas of the US and Canada. The majority of this smoke is being produced by fires located in Okanogan National Forest of northern Washington, Umatilla National Forest of southeast Washington, many fires spreading through central and northern Idaho, and a large wildfire located in southern Montana. The massive area of smoke is moving to the north,to the northeast, to the east, and to to the southeast from the many fires. The densest portion of smoke can be seen covering Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, western Dakota's, Nebraska and Kansas. There is even dense smoke that traveled through Canada and is moving south back into the US and covering Minnesota, Iowa, and northern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Lighter to moderately dense smoke is affecting Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and some of the lighter smoke is even reaching the southeastern states. Canada: Mainly the smoke from the fires in Okanogan National Forest is traveling north to northeast into British Columbia, where it then begins to move directly east across almost all of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and western Ontario, before it takes a turn to the south back into the United States. California: The wildfires located within the national forest's of northwest California continue to produce dense to very dense smoke that is fanning out to the west out over the Pacific Ocean. Some of this smoke also is traveling up the coast into western Oregon. Banks