DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215 UTC August 1, 2007
Oregon/Montana/Idaho: Large wildfires in northeast Oregon (Hells Canyon National Recreational Park), in central Idaho and western Montana are producing a large area of moderately dense to very dense smoke that is moving west across parts of central Idaho and western/central Montana. Light to moderately dense residual smoke (with a few dense pockets) from these fires continues to move west across parts of southern Canada, the northern/central Rockies, the northern/central Plains, the Upper/Middle Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley. British Columbia/Alberta: Wildfires burning in southeast British Columbia are producing moderately dense to dense plumes of smoke moving west into southern Alberta. California: A wildfire in the Sierra Madre Mountains in Santa Barbara county is emitting an area of moderately dense to dense smoke south into the Pacific Ocean. Light to moderately dense smoke is also fanning north NE across the county. A narrow line of residual smoke from this fire stretches from northern to southern California in the central section of the state (San Joaquin Valley). A fire in northern California in the Siskiyou mountains (Siskiyou county) is producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke that stretches south into Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity counties. Residual light smoke from this fire can be seen in extreme southwest Oregon and a small area in the Pacific Ocean west of the wildfire. Washington: A fire in Chelan county (North Cascades National Park) is producing an area of moderately dense smoke extending southeast along the Okanogan county border. Mid Atlantic/Tennessee and Ohio Valley/Upper and Lower Mississippi Valley: A mix of light smoke and haze spreads across most of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and parts of southern Indiana and Illinois and southeast Missouri, northeast Arkansas and northern North Carolina. Source of smoke cannot be confirmed, but thinking is that its from the wildfires in the western U.S. Northwest Territories: Cloud cover limits smoke detection but an area of moderate smoke or smoke mixed with haze can be seen moving from southeast of Great Bear Lake toward Great Slave Lake. Presumably this smoke is a residual from previous days fires in western Northwest Territories and east central Alaska. J Kibler