DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z June 11, 2007
Canada: The large fires in northern Alberta west of Lake Athabasca are still burning through the whole day and have produced a large area of locally very dense smoke that are fanning out to the north. The large fires in central Saskatchewan southwest of Reindeer Lake have produced two large areas of locally dense smoke which are now merging together becoming one. The residual smoke from this morning's burning has formed a thin swath of smoke which extended just south of these fires across central Manitoba into east of central Quebec. Today a bunch of new fires along Manitoba-Quebec province boundary started to burn and has produced a locally dense plume of smoke that is moving northeasterly into northwestern Quebec. North Carolina: A fire along Burke-MC Dowell county border is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving southeasterly almost to the counties' boundary. Another fire in Transylvania county southern North Carolina is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving northerly into eastern Jackson county. South Carolina: A fire in central Laurens county is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving easterly and has covered the eastern quarter of the county. Georgia: The fires within Ware and Clinch counties are producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving eastward into Charlton county. Alabama: A fire in St. Clair county is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving southerly into southern Talladega county. Mexico: A bunch of small fires along east Gulf of California are producing thin plumes of smoke. Zhong