DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z June 27, 2006.
Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico: The large wildfire in the Kaibab National Forest of northern Coconino county generated a dense plume of smoke that was moving south then southwest into California before being obscured by cloud. Smoke moving south through northern Apache County, AZ, was the result of a fire in San Juan County, UT. Large fires in Washington County Utah produced moderately dense smoke plumes moving south and southwest into Mohave County AZ and Clark County NV. Smoke from large fires in Elko County NV was obscured by clouds. Wyoming: Smoke was moving south southwest from a blaze in Campbell County. British Columbia: A fire along the Pacific Coast in southwest British Columbia generated a plume that moved to the southeast. Canada: There are numerous fires around Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake and they are producing a moderately dense to locally very dense area of smoke. The smoke is moving south across the whole of Saskatchewan and also covers sourthern Manitoba, North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Numerous new fires in northern Manitoba north of Lake Winnipeg and east of Reindeer Lake are producing very dense plumes of smoke, which are moving sourtheast to northern Lake Winnipeg. There is thin smoke in Quebec from previous day's fires on Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake, which is moving east across east central Quebec and into Labrador. Two big fires in western Quebec are producing locally dense plumes of smoke, wich are moving northeast. There is also a fire producing moderately dense smoke moving north in central Quebec near Chibougamau. A fire in eastern Quebec north of Sept Iles is producing a narrow plume of dense smoke that is moving to the east. MT/MR/BZ