DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z July 16, 2006.
U.S.: A large area of smoke stretched from southern and central California through the central Great Basin and central Rockies across the Northern Plains, the Upper Midwest and Upper Great Lakes including northern portions of the Central Plains and Mid Mississippi Valley. The smoke was thickest over Wyoming, southeast Montana and the Dakotas. The primary source regions for this pall of smoke were California, southeast Montana, north central Wyoming and Minnesota. Montana: Fires in Yellowstone, Big Horn and Powder River counties were producing dense plumes of smoke that extended as much as 300 km to the southeast. Minnesota: Smoked extended 235 km to the west of a blaze in the Superior National Forest in Lake County. Nevada: A narrow plume of smoke extended 45 km to the east of a fire in Nye County. Canada: Smoke--the result of fires in extreme western Ontario and eastern Manitoba--was moving east across central Ontario and James Bay.