DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z JULY 14, 2008

California/Great Basin/Southwest:
Moderately dense to dense smoke blankets much of the northern two thirds
of California, especially in the central valley and the northern third of
the state. Moderately dense to dense smoke also spills over into southern
Oregon and the northern half of Nevada. Dense smoke from the large blaze
in Monterey county is lifting north along the coast. A broad area of
smoke also extends off the entire California coast but is difficult to
discern due to the presence of extensive low level clouds.

Central Rockies/Southern Plains/Tennessee Valley:
Mainly light smoke from the California fires extends in a across portions
of Colorado and then dips to the south across southern Oklahoma, Arkansas,
northern Mississippi and Alabama and into eastern Tennessee.

Kansas:
A large number of agricultural/prescribe burns across central Kansas
produced numerous small plumes of light smoke which coalesced into a
somewhat larger mass of smoke over central Kansas by sunset. The smoke
was slowly swirling in a clockwise direction.

Pacific Northwest:
A large fire has erupted near Mt Adams in southern Washington. It quickly
generated a large plume of very thick smoke which rapidly spread to the
east and reached to the Idaho/Montana border near Mineral county Montana
by sunset. A fire in Grant county Washington produced a thin plume of
smoke which moved to the east into southwest Lincoln county. Two fires
just north of the Idaho border in southern British Columbia had narrow
plumes of thin smoke that extended to the east about 100 km. An area
of light remnant smoke was drifting to the east across central and
southern Idaho.

Central Canada/Upper Mississippi Valley:
An area of mainly light remnant smoke stretches in a broad arc from
eastern Nunavut along the northwest shore of Hudson Bay southward across
central and eastern Manitoba and into central Minnesota.

Northwest Canada/Eastern Alaska:
A fire about 85 km to the northeast of Fort Yukon is producing a plume of
light to moderately dense smoke that is drifting to the northwest about
135 km. A couple of fires along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border
south of Fort McPherson are producing narrow plumes of smoke that are
moving to the southeast.

Maine:
A fire in Downeast Maine just north of Pembroke had a narrow plume of
thin smoke which extended to the north-northeast into extreme southwest
New Brunswick.

Ruminski

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.