DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 25, 2006
Northern Third of US: Extensive area of smoke extended from the Northern Rockies and Northern Plains southeast into the Mid Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic before extending east into the Atlantic Ocean south of New England. Primary sources for these fires as seen in visible satellite imagery today were the Bridger Wilderness Area and Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming and the Gallatin National Forest in Montana. Extensive cloud cover precluded the detection of smoke plumes in Washington, Oregon and Idaho but presumably these fires are also contributing to the pall of smoke. California/Nevada: Fires in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in California continued to produce locally dense smoke while other blazes in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties generated plumes that extended into Nevada. A fire in Lincoln County Nevada has produced a smoke plume that extended northeast into Utah.