DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 24, 2005
Northwest and North Central Canada/Alaska: An area of dense smoke is moving ese-ward across the region extending from 127W to 102W and 69N to 55N. The smoke stretches from Dolphin and Union Strait across Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The smoke extends farther southward across northeast British Columbia, northern/central Alberta and northwest Manitoba. The source of this smoke is from the fires in Alaska and Yukon Territory. California/Oregon/Washington. A fire in Cleveland National Forest east of San Diego is producing a thin line of smoke northward to about Riverside. Latest estimate has the fire at about 75 acres. A fire north of Camp Pendleton is producing an area of thin smoke moving north to about the San Gabriel Mountains. A fire in the Santa Lucia Ranges is causing a thin area of smoke to move northward within Monterrey County. A fire in the Plumas National Forest northwest of Frenchman Lake is producing a thick plume of smoke moving northeast into Nevada. Nevada: The Barrel fire burning in northwest Nevada is causing a thick area of smoke moving east northeastward across extreme southeast Oregon to near the Crooked Creek Ranges. Oregon: The Blossom Complex continues to burn with smoke moving across the Siskiyou National Forest to the Pacific Coast. The smoke then moves south along the California coast to as far as Point Delgada in Northern California. Kibler