DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z September 13, 2005
Pacific Northwest: Areas of thin to moderate smoke are over the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, Strait of Georgia and extreme northwest Washington/southwest British Columbia from a fire that was burning near White Rock. The smoke was either stationary or slowly moving to the east. A fire near Detroit Lake along the eastern Linn/Marion county border is producing a thin plume of smoke that is drifting to the southwest to near Sweet Home. Eastern US: A broad area of smoke, likely mixed with haze, is seen stretching from western Georgia and Alabama northward along and west of the spine of the Appalachians over western Tennessee and Kentucky into the eastern Great Lakes and southern Ontario/Quebec. The smoke/haze is thickest over Georgia and Alabama. An area of thin smoke is seen extending to the southeast off the New England and Long Island coasts. The source of the smoke is a combination of the fires in Idaho/Montana and numerous agricultural/control burns over the lower Mississippi Valley over the past several days. Ruminski