DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0100Z August 14, 2005
Pacific Northwest/Inter-mountains West: The large area of smoke seen across Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana last night in GOES 10 imagery has decreased significantly. The School fire near Pomeroy, Washington is producing a thin area of smoke moving ssw-ward to about the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon. The Blossom Creek fire in southwest Oregon is generating a thin area of smoke stretching westward across Brandy Peak to the Pacific Coast. Alaska and western Canada: A large area of thick smoke stretches across central Alaska from Kotzebue Sound southward to the Taylor Mountains and eastward into the Yukon Territory near the Ogilvie Mountains. The thick smoke then moves southward along southwestern Yukon Territory to near the British Columbia/Yukon border. The thinner smoke reaches the Brooks Ranges in northern Alaska and the Kilbuck/Talkeetna Mountains in southern Alaska. Most of the Yukon Territory is covered by smoke except for the northern tip and moves farther eastward to near the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories. The overall smoke coverage then moves southward across most of British Columbia. The thin smoke in Alberta stretches from the Birch Mountains to the U.S. border and in Saskatchewan from Prince Albert National Park to Lake Diefenbaker. The smoke does not reach northern and eastern Saskatchewan. Kibler