DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1800Z JULY 01, 2005
US Southwest into the Central Great Plains: A very thin area of smoke could be seen in GOES-10 visible imagery when the sun angle was quite low. The area covers far SE NV in NE Clark and SE Lincoln counties and continues eastward across the S one-third of UT, N one-third of AZ, S quarter of CO, N one-third of NM, OK panhandle and extreme SW KS. A small pocket of thin smoke can be seen surrounding the Cave Creek Complex into the Phoenix metro area as well. Alaska/N Yukon Territory/Northwest Territories: High concentration of weather clouds has covered most of the active burning areas. However, moderately dense smoke can be seen from the eastern Yukon boarder into the NW Territories across the SW portion of Great Bear Lake, over the Great Slave Lake to near the SE Nunavut boarder. Alberta/Saskatchewan A second moderately dense area of smoke over NW Alberta into NE Saskatchewan over Lake Athabasca is directly under a narrow deformation zone with smoke moving in nearly all directions. Gallina