DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630 July 30, 2007
Northern Rockies/High Plains: A huge area of very dense smoke from numerous fires over northern and central Idaho and western Montana is seen covering much of Montana, the southern half of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and north central Wyoming. Moderately dense smoke also extends further south across central Wyoming and into northeast Colorado and is seen over northeast North Dakota into northwest Minnesota. Mainly light to moderate smoke remains with the fires in central Idaho. Additional fires in southeast British Columbia are producing narrow plumes of light to moderate smoke that is spreading to the east across the Continental Divide and into southern Alberta. California: Moderately dense smoke from the fire complex in western Siskiyou county in northern California has settled into the valleys around the fire complex this morning. The long running blaze in central Santa Barbara county has produced a plume of mainly light to locally moderate smoke that extends north across the entire Sierra Nevada range across Lake Tahoe and reached the California/Oregon border. The smoke is also spreading to the southeast of the fire and is banked to the west of the Sierra Madre and San Gabriel mountains and off the coast. Mid Atlantic Coast and the Ohio Valley: Residual smoke from previous days has settled into this region and mixed with haze. This area of light smoke stretches from Long Island westward across New Jersey and Pennsylvania then bends back to the southwest across southeast Ohio, much of Kentucky and into central Tennessee. Northwest Canada: A few fires were observed over the northern Yukon and western Northwest Territory west of Great Bear Lake. They were producing moderate to dense smoke that is now drifting to the east and reaching the western shore of the lake. Ruminski