DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
South Carolina: A fire near Awendaw in the Francis Marion Nat'l Forest has produced moderate smoke that rapidly moved SE nearly 80km offshore. Louisiana: A fire SW of Pearlington,MS in St. Tammany Parish, LA produced moderate smoke that moved due south across Lake Borgne and the Missippi River delta into the Gulf of Mexico south of Empire, LA. Texas: Thin smoke from a fire near Morgan in Bosque county has moved due south very slowly and is still over only S Bosque county. A fire near Archer City in Archer county is moving due east and extends to the Archer/Clay countyline. California: Multiple agricultural fires in the fields south of the Salton Sea are producing short bursts of moderate smoke that area moving due west extending across the southern portions of the Sea and across the deserts of Imperial county to the lower slopes of the Coastal Mtns. A fire near Whispering Pines in southern Lake county is producing a very thin line of moderately dense smoke that is moving quickly to the north. The plume is no wider than 5km and extends to the tri-county area of Lake/Glenn and Mendocino. A fire near North Bloomfield in N Nevada county is producing moderate smoke that is moving due north to near Spanish Ranch in west-central Plumas county. Thin smoke from this fire is also moving east and northeast along the spine of higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada. A fire near Berry Creek in Butte county is producing thin to moderately dense smoke that has moved north all day...and extends a far north as the Siskiyou county line just south of Mt. Shasta. Oregon: A fire near Frenchglen in Harney county along the Donner und Blitzen River NW of the Steens Mountain range is producing a moderate amount of smoke that is expanding in all directions (excluding moving up the slopes of the mtns. to the SE). The most dense smoke areas appear to be following the river tributaries. Gallina