DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1415Z July 26, 2006.
Upper Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic: An area of thin smoke can be seen over nearly all of Ohio (except far NW and West Virginia. The smoke then continues east into the Mid-Atlantic states where it covers the southern 2/3rds of PA, the northern Shenandoah Valley in NW VA, Northern Maryland (north of DC), New Castle county DE, and NY south of Hudson including NYC and W Suffolk county on Long Island. The smoke is remnants of fires from Saskatchewan and Manitoba fires from this weekend. Manitoba/Ontario: A moderately dense line of smoke from the Canadian fires (east of the Mackenzie River and E of Lake Athabasca). The line runs along the Manitoba/Ontario provincial line the length of Lake Winnipeg. S Canadian Rockies/N US Rockies: A very dense plume of smoke from the Tin Pan and Tripod fires in N Washington state can be seen along the US/Canadian boarder from US-97 across Bonner and Boundary counties in ID to Flathead Lake in MT. The plume is about 125km wide and is moving due east. A second area from the source fires itself is of moderate density and is at a lower altitude near the surface and is moving SW off the higher terrain of the Cascades. The smoke extends SW to I-90 near Moses Lake. Oregon/N California: Thin to moderately dense plumes of smoke from the Black Crater, Maxwell and Happy Camp fires in Oregon and N California are moving E covering portions of Deschutes, S Crook, and S Wheeler and W Grant in OR and portions of NW Siskiyou county in CA. Smoke is relatively low level. NW Canada/NE Alaska: An area of thin smoke from smoldering fires along the Mackenzie river in NW Northwest Territories is moving NW over NE Alaska/Far N Yukon Territory, over some open waters of the Artic and the Ice sheet as far north as 73N 145W. Gallina