DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0155Z JULY 2, 2008
North Carolina/US East Coast: Light to moderately dense smoke can be seen emanating from the South 1 and Evans Rd fires through breaks in the clouds. The smoke is traveling to the NNE and merges with clouds making the total areal extent indeterminable. Central US: A light haze can be seen over the central United States in the last few visible images of the day. This area is likely remnant smoke from the fires which have been burning in northern Saskatchewan. The haze/smoke covers Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, western Ohio, Kentucky, western Tennessee and the eastern portions of Arkansas and Missouri. Northern California: The fires in northern California continue to burn producing moderately dense to dense smoke which is traveling up the coast through western Oregon and Washington and into Canada. Southern California: A large fire along the coast in Monterey county is generating dense smoke which had stayed centralized around the fire but in the last few hours has begun moving east. In eastern Kern county the Piute fire is producing moderately dense to dense smoke which extends over 200km to the northeast entering into Nye county Nevada. Several smaller fires in eastern Imperial county are producing light smoke which is moving to the east. Canada: The fires located in northern Saskatchewan near Lake Athabasca continue to burn emitting dense smoke which is fanning out and traveling to the south. As the smoke reaches the US/Canadian border, it is spread from south central Saskatchewan, east through Manitoba and into central Ontario. Once in Ontario, the smoke is obscured by clouds but it appears to stretch into western Quebec. -Salemi