DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1500Z JULY 03, 2005
Alaska: Several fires in central Alaska northwest of Fairbanks are producing smoke that is moving to the east and extends to the Canadian border where it mixes with a mass of clouds. Canada: A broad area of smoke generated over the past few days from the fires in Alaska and the Yukon Territory extends from Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories southeastward across northeast Alberta and northern Saskatchewan, covering Lake Athabasca, and into northwest Manitoba. The smoke is thickest across Alberta and western Saskatchewan. Southwest: The numerous large blazes across Nevada, Utah and Arizona have produced an area of diffuse smoke vrom southeast Nevada and northwest Arizona eastward into southwest Colorado. Another area of diffuse smoke can be seen over eastern Colorado and southwest Kansas dropping through the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles into eastern New Mexico. Ruminski