DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 08, 2007
British Columbia: Cloud cover prevents observation of smoke from the numerous fires in southern and central British Columbia. U.S. West Coast There are fires scattered throughout Washington, Oregon and northern California, but only fires in Coos County Oregon, Curry County, Oregon Mariposa County, California and Shasta County, California have observable plumes of light smoke. Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota: Very numerous agricultural fires in southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba and northern and eastern North Dakota are producing only a few plumes large enough to see in GOES satellite imagery. The plumes are light smoke and extend southeastward. Southeastern U.S. and adjoining states: There are very numerous agricultural burns especially in southern Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, and to a lesser extent Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and South Carolina. Some of these fires are producing smoke plumes, generally narrow plumes of light or moderate smoke that extend southward. A bright and persistent fire near the Louisiana coast is producing a very long but narrow plume of moderate smoke that extends southwestward far into the Gulf of Mexico. Much of this plume is roughly parallel to the coast of Texas. The last visible imagery of the day shows the plume to be about 50 km east of the Texas coast but some of the plume does seem to be moving slowly and erratically toward Texas.