DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 26, 2006
Washington/Oregon: The large fires in Okanogan County of Washington have been produced locally dense smoke that is moving to south SW since this morning. The smoke have become a shape of strip with about 60km width whose dense portion have extended as long as 470 km and thin portion has traveled 120 km more than the dense portion to central western Oregon. Fires in central Columbia county of southeastern Washington are generating moderately dense areas of smoke extending into Umatilla and Union counties of Oregon. A big fire in Grant county of Oregon is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke fanning out to the south which has covered most of Grant, Marney, Lake, and Klamath counties of Oregon from north. Another fire in Benton county in western Oregon produced a moderately dense puff of smoke moving south and now the smoke is influencing Lake county. California/Nevada: Fires in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in California continued to produce locally dense smoke traveling westward, which has covered the whole northwestern corner of California. A fire in Tuolumne county of central eastern California is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke which is moving northeast and reaching the boundary of California and Nevada at county Esmeralda of California. A fire in Lincoln County, Nevada is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving northeast and nearly reaching the border of Nevada and Utah. Mexico: A fire near the western border between Mexico and California is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving west along the border to southwestern Arizona. Most of the smoke is located in Mexico. Manitoba: A bunch of fires in northeastern corner of Manitoba province of Canada is burning and producing moderately dense and narrow plumes of smoke that are moving north to Hudson Bay. Zhong