DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z JUNE 9, 2008
North Carolina: A large wildfire in Tyrrell and Washington Counties is continuing to produce heavy, dense smoke blowing in an east-southeast direction over the Outer Banks and Atlantic Ocean. A narrow but thick plume extends about 275 miles eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. Light to moderate smoke continues to cover much of the offshore area east of the Carolinas north to New York, and south to Florida, where some of this light smoke extends westward across much of southern Georgia and northern Florida. S. Tennessee/W. North Carolina/W. South Carolina/Georgia: In evening vis imagery, light smoke/haze is drifting to the north. California: In Tulare County, a heavy smoke plume is currently moving to the south-southeast. The heavy smoke extends at least 50 miles to the southeast. In Monterey County, a moderate smoke plume is moving to the west over the Pacific Ocean and extends out 35 miles from the source. Canada: Several moderately dense smoke plumes are moving to the west and northwest over the central and northern parts of the province of Saskatchewan. One plume in particular, about 200 miles southwest of Reindeer Lake, is very dense and extends out at least 60 miles from the source of origin.