DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1530Z JULY 26, 2005
Alaska/Yukon: A broad area of smoke along a west/east axis extends across most of north-central Alaska from the Seward peninsula eastward across the Yukon valley, staying north of Fairbanks and banked up against the southern edge of the Broooks Range, into the northern Yukon Territory, crossing the Ogilvie Mountains. The smoke area is approximately 300 km wide with the smoke over the western half of Alaska moving mainly to the west and the smoke over the eastern half of Alaska and the Yukon Territory mainly drifting to the east. Ontario: An small area of smoke was seen moving south from southern Ontario into north central Lake Superior. The source of the smoke is most likely fires burning near Lake Nipigon in south central Ontario. Washington: An area of thin/diffuse smoke was seen over north central Washington moving northeast across Okanogan county. It is likely that the source of the smoke was a fire near Wenatchee. California: An area of thin smoke was seen drifting to the northwest from the central San Joaquin Valley into the east San Frnacisco Bay area. Ruminski