DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z August 31, 2005
Central and Northern Plains: An area of thin smoke was entrained along a frontal boundary and mixed with clouds over parts of the central and northern Plains. This thin smoke was seen mainly over eastern South Dakota and Nebraska and adjoining southwest Minnesota and western Iowa. The whole area was moving east. The smoke is likely from the fires over Idaho. Great Lakes: A small area of moderately thin smoke was seen over central Lake Huron just west of the back edge of the cloud shield associated with the remains of Katrina. The smoke area was moving east-northeast. Colorado: Two fire burning in or near Montorse county in western Colorado are producing thin plumes of smoke that are drifting to the northeast into Delta and Mesa counties. Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles: A thin area of smoke was seen drifting south over the Oklahoma and northwest Texas Panhandles. Montana/Wyoming: A narrow plume of smoke approximately 75 km wide extends from south central Montana (a bit to the north of the Bighorn Mountains) to the east southeast into northeast Wyoming and reaching just to the south of the Black Hills. The plume was moving to the east southeast. Canada: Two areas of smoke were seen over mainly Hudson Bay. One area extended across much of the central Bay from the Manitoba/Ontario border in the southwest to northwest Quebec in the northeast. A second area was over the northwest part of the Bay from Southampton Island southwestward along the Nunavut coastline. Ruminski