DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z August 22, 2005
Alaska/Northwestern and northcentral Canada: Cloud cover continues to hamper smoke detection. However, a large area of thick smoke is seen extending east from the fires across east central and northeast Alaska into northern Yukon Territory and the northwest Northwest Territories, cutting across Great Bear Lake and then reaching the Arctic Coast near Voctoria Island. An area of smoke is also seen in the northern Gulf of Alaska from east of the Kenai peninsula and wrapping back to the southwest to the south of Kodiak Island. Another area of smoke was seen well to the south between about 140-150W and 45-55N. A thin area of smoke was seen over central Canada stretching from east to west across central Hudson Bay. This area also drops south and covers much of northern Manitoba and then reaching to east of Lake Winnipeg. Pacific Northwest: Moderately dense smoke is associated with a fire in southwest Oregon near the Wild Rogue Wilderness Area. The smoke has fanned out to north and south of the fire and has reached to the California border. Idaho/Montana: Numerous fires in the Bitterroots of northern Idaho are producing an area of dense smoke in the local vicinity and somewhat thinner smoke extending into western Montana. California: A fire in southern Lake county has spread a smoke plume to the northeast. Smoke from the Sequoia/Kings Canyon blaze is spreading to the west into the central valley. Ruminski