DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 7, 2006.
Washington/southwestern Canada/south of central Canada: The Tripod Complex fire north and NE of Twisp, WA along the Okanogan Range continues to output a large area of thick smoke moving east NE into British Columbia. When the smoke reaches MT. Revelstoke areas in British Columbia of Canada, it fanned out and almost covered all the southern Alberta. Then the relatively thin smoke becomes a narrow line and has moved across southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Northern California: The fire in Mendocino county in Norther California is still burning and producing moderately dense smoke, that is moving northwest across northern Mendocino county toward the Pacific Ocean. Canada/Northwest Territories: A fire south of Great Bear Lake is still producing moderately dense plume of smoke moving north his morning. A dense area of smoke is swriling around the whole of Great Bear Lake. A large area of mixture of smoke and haze just north of eastern Great Slave Lake can be seen. Zhong