DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 30, 2006
Southern California/Arizona: With to the favorable low sun angle the first couple of GOES-West Visible images of the day appeared to show a possible area of very thin leftover smoke moving southeastward across far southern California and much of Arizona as well as the northern Gulf of California and northwestern Mexico. This area of possible smoke was likely due primarily to the Esperanza Fire in southern California and likely originated a couple of days ago when the fire was emitting a tremendous amount of smoke. The smoke moved offshore mainly in a westward direction and was probably not easily detected yesterday due to the presence of other cloudiness off the coast of California. It is believed that the leftover smoke then began to move back to the east and southeast yesterday, eventually spreading back inland over California and now points farther to the east and southeast. Oregon: A narrow developing smoke plume was detected from a fire in western Curry County of far southwestern Oregon moving to the southwest and off the coast. JS