DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0205Z UTC August 19, 2007
California/Nevada: The large fire in Santa Barbara County in southern California continues to produce extensive smoke over the Southwest. Very dense smoke extended to the northeast over western Kern County and southern Tulare County. Light and moderately dense smoke drifted southward over the Pacific. Moreover, a swath of moderately dense to locally dense smoke across Nevada and southern Idaho into southern Montana where it has merged with the smoke from the large fires in Idaho and Montana. Another fire in western San Luis Obispo county is producing a moderately dense to dense plume of smoke that is swirling around then moving to the north into southern San Benito county. Oregon: A large fire in southeastern Grant county is producing a locally very dense plume of smoke that is moving northeasterly across Idaho-Oregon border in Wallowk county of northeastern Oregon. British Columbia: A fire in southern British Columbia near Washington border is producing a moderately dense to dense plume of smoke that is moving northward. Idaho/Montana/North Dakota/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/eastern US/ Gulf of Mexico: Numerous persistent fires in Idaho and Montana caused very dense smoke that pushed northward over southern Alberta, southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan, then into North Dakota. Thin smoke extended eastward across the Northern Plains, the Midwest and into the Middle Atlantic Region. The thin to moderately dense smoke has covered the eastern half of the continental US and eastern half of Gulf of Mexico. Minnesota/Manitoba: Two fires in Roslou and Woods counties of northern Minnesota are producing puffs of thin smoke that are moving northward into southern Manitoba of Canada. A fire just south of Lake Manitoba is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving mainly west. North Carolina/Georgia/Tennessee/Florida: A fire in Robeson county of southern North Carolina is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is spreading to both the east and west. A fire in Catoosa of northern Georgia is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving northwesterly into southern Tennessee. A fire in Santa Rosa county of western Florida Panhandle is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving northerly into southern Oklahoma. A fire near Everglades National Park in southern Florida is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving to the west. Yukon and Northwest Territories: Two fires in central Yukon province of Canada are producing thin plumes of smoke that are moving northward. A fire south of Great Bear Lake is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving northerly. A fire south of Great Slave Lake is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving northerly. Zhong