DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z June 22, 2006
Southwest: A detached dissipating plume of smoke most like originally from Northern AZ extends from the Four Corners area slightly northeast to over Pueblo Colorado. Fires over west central New Mexico have produced an area of moderately dense smoke that has mixed with clouds and drifted to the east and northeast. The smoke extends across central New Mexico and into the northern Texas Panhandle and the western Oklahoma Panhandle. Ohio and Tennessee Valleys: A broad area of haze is seen over much of the country east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes. Some smoke from the fires in Arizona and New Mexico from several days ago is likely mixed in with the haze. This is most likely in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Canada: In Canada a large pool of smoke can be seen in the area south of Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan. Bands of smoke are moving away from this pool, northwest to Western Great Slave Lake and southeast across the Lac La Ronge region to just west of Lake Winnipeg in Central Manitoba. GLS/BZ/MR