DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 19, 2007
Quebec: Numerous fires continue to rage across parts of central Quebec and are producing mostly moderate to very dense plumes of smoke across the province. The smoke from the more western fires close to James Bay is lifting to the north but the smoke then arc more to the east toward Labrador. Some remnant smoke from the fires on Sunday had dropped across portions of Maine and into the Atlantic earlier in the afternoon. Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic: A broad area of smoke, likely mixed with some haze, was seen lifting to the north ahead of a cold front and extended from eastern Kentucky northward across Ohio and eastern Michigan into southern Ontario. The source of the smoke was the large number of agricultural fires from the past several days in the mid Mississippi Valley. A broad area of moderate to thick haze also extended across the mid Atlantic staes from West Virginia across Virginia and the Delmarva into the Atlantic. There may be some smoke mixed in with this haze also. Alberta/Saskatchewan into the northern Plains: The Complex of fires in Wood Buffalo National Park just west of Lake Athabasca continues to produce moderately dense to thick smoke. The smoke area is south-southeast across most of Saskatchewan and reaches into northeast Montana and western North Dakota. California: A fire in southwest Tulare county near Johnsondale in the Sequoia National Forest has produced a narrow plume of thin smoke that extends to the notheast reaching the Inyo county border. Colorado: A fire in eastern Garfield county is producing a moderately dense plume that extends to the east and reached the Continental Divide by sunset. Another fire in northeast Mesa county had a narrow thin plume of smoke extending to the east-northeast. Northwest Canada: A pair of blazes in northwest Canada are producing very dense smoke that is dropping south and just about reaching the northern border of British Columbia. One blaze is in the Yukon near Faro and the other is in the Northwest Territories close to Norman Wells. Alaska: A fire in east central Alaska near Circle Hot Springs is producing a small plume of smoke that is drifting to the west. Ruminski