DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z JULY 31, 2008
California east across the northern Rockies into the Plains: The fires in northern California continue to produce smoke that initially extends to the northeast into southeast Oregon and southern Idaho and then extends eastward into the Plains from South Dakota and Minnesota. A light area of smoke also curves south into Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and northeast New Mexico. The smoke area is moderately dense to dense over much of northern California near the fires and into southeast Oregon. Another patch of moderate to dense smoke is seen stretching across central South Dakota. Locally dense areas of smoke were also seen over northwest Wyoming and adjacent southern Montana where several fires were also burning in Yellowstone National Park, Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests and near Red Lodge in the Custer National Forest. Colorado: Light smoke was seen over southwest Colorado slowly drifting east. The smoke is likely from fires in Montrose and Dolores counties. Canada: Smoke from the large fires that have been burning in northern Saskatchewan and around Great Slave Lake covers much of Northwest Territories, Nunavut Territory, northern Saskatchewan and northern Hudson Bay. The smoke is most dense over eastern Northwest Territories and western Nunavut Territory. Ruminski