DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0100Z August 08, 2005
N Canada: A very narrow line of old thin smoke from the ongoing fires in Alaska and the NW Territories has been caught up in strong W/NW flow transporting it from NW Nunavut Territory across the southern portion of Nunavut into the C Hudson Bay southeastward to Belcher Islands and the eastern shore near the town of Kuujjuarapik. SE Canada: A narrow area of thin smoke from yesterday's ongoing fires near Lake Nipigon is about 120 km wide and extends from near Montreal (where it is moving rapidly eastward) southwest along the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and then back across to Georgian Bay and across the Upper Peninsula of MI, where it is nearly stationary. SW Ontario/N Minnesota: Multiple fires near Caribou Lake and near and west of Lake Nipigon along with ongoing fires in the Boundary Waters along the Canada/Minnesota boarder are producing moderate to dense smoke across the aforementioned area and eastward across Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior north of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Inter-mountain West/N Great Plains of the US: A very large area of dense to moderately dense (varies and thins the further east in the plume) from multiple large fires across W MT,N ID, and SE WA (with most of the smoke being produced by the “School” fire in SE WA). The smoke covers nearly all of MT, all of ND and the northern one-third of SD with some thin smoke pouring into Manitoba south of Lake Manitoba and into northwestern portions of Minnesota at this time. This area is one of the largest smoke plumes of the 2005 fire season within the lower 48 US states. Gallina