DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0015Z August 18, 2005
Alaska/Northwestern Canada: Fires across Alaska and northern Yukon Territory continue to produce an extensive area of dense smoke. Smoke spreads westward across the Bering Sea then southward to the Aleutian Islands. Dense smoke also spreads eastward and merges with an area of less dense smoke from fires south of the Great Bear Lake. Thin smoke spreads southward to northwestern British Columbia. Ontario/Northern Great Lakes: A fire at Lake Nipigon is spreading thin smoke to the Northern great Lakes. Upper Midwest/Ohio Valley An area of thin smoke and haze stretches from Iowa/Wisconsin to Ohio and the Lower Great Lakes. This are of smoke was observed in the morning GOES-10 imagery but the source is indeterminate. Brown