DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 0330Z August 21, 2005
Alaska/Northwestern and Northcentral Canada: A cloud shield has spread across western Alaska this evening inhibiting smoke detection. However the large number of fires across interior Alaskan continue to produce an area of dense smoke that covers much of the eastern half of the state and drops southward over the Cook Inlet and Kodiak Island and continues south into the Gulf of Alaska. The smoke also has spread eastward to cover roughly the northern half of the Yukon Territory and the northwest portion of the Northwest Territories north and west of Great Bear Lake. A separate area of moderate smoke can be seen farther east over much of Nunavut and extending into northern portions of Manitoba and just reaching the northwest shore of Hudson Bay. Northern Rockies: Numerous fires over northern Idaho are producing moderately dense to dense smoke over much of northern Idaho and into western Montana. Pacific Northwest: A fire over southwest Oregon is producing an area of moderately dense smoke that extends northward along and west of the Cascades into western Washington. The smoke also extends to the southeast of the blaze in southwest Oregon. Ruminski