DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z September 26, 2006
California/western Oregon: The fires located within the national forests of Siskiyou and Trinity counties are producing moderately dense to dense smoke that extends north northwest over the Pacific but also northward along the coast of Oregon. The large wildfire in Ventura county of southern California continues to produce a moderately dense plume of smoke that extends 246 km to the north. Residual smoke extends farther north where it joins the smoke from the blazes in Siskiyou and Trinity counties. Colorado/New Mexico/Texas: A narrow ribbon of residual smoke from the Ventura county fire extends from extreme southwest Colorado across New Mexico and into north central Texas. A narrow plume of smoke extends 156 km into the Gulf of Mexico from a fire on the north Texas coast in Jefferson County. Baja California: A blaze in northern Baja California spread smoke northeastward for 244 km across southeast California and was approaching the border with New Mexico.