DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z November 7, 2006
California: Numerous fires in the Sacramento valley, mainly in Glenn..northeast Yolo..Sutter..Colusa and western Yuba counties, are producing narrow plumes of light to moderately dense smoke that are moving to the north and reach into northern Butte and southern Tehama counties. A blaze in southwest Lake county near the border with Mendocino/Sonoma counties is producing a narrow plume of thin smoke that extends about 70 km east into western Yolo county. A fire in southern Tuolumne county near the western border of Yosemite National Park is producing a moderately dense to locally dense smoke plume that was drifting south at sunset across central Mariposa county. A fire in eastern Madera county along the Fresno county border and near Balloon Dome in the Ansel Adams Wilderness was producing a narrow plume of light to locally moderately dense smoke that extended to the northeast about 40 km into south central Inyo county. Arizona: Three fires in central Arizona are producing narrow plumes of thin density smoke that are all extending to the southwest. One fire in central Yavapai south of Prescott has its plume extending 125 km, a fire in central Gila county north of Theodore Roosevelt Lake has a plume extending 35 km and a fire in southeast Coconino near the Blue Ridge reservoir has a plume extending 85 km. A fire in the Kaibab National Forest north of the Grand Canyon has a plume of thin smoke extending to the southeast and reaches the Colorado River. A fire in southern Coconino just southwest of Flagstaff is producing a plume of thin density smoke that extends 80 km to the south southeast. Utah: A blaze in extreme southwest Garfield county is producing a narrow plume of thin density smoke extending 115 km to the southeast into northern Coconino county Arizona. Baja Mexico: A fire in northwest Baja east of Ensenada is producing a narrow plume of light smoke that extends 30 km to the east. Another blaze a little further south along the west coast of Baja near Colonet is producing a plume of light smoke that extends about 45 km to the north. Ruminski