DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200z September 06, 2006
Northwestern US/Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes/western Canada/central Canada: Wildfires in northeastern Oregon, southeastern and northern Washington, all over Idaho, western and southern Montana, western Wyoming, northern Nevada, and northern California in northwestern US, as well as the fires in British Columbia, northern Alberta, and western Ontario in Canada are producing massive areas of moderately dense to very dense smoke. These smoke plumes all have merged with one another and have spread out to the areas mentioned on the title. Southern and central California: A big fire near border between Ventura and Los Angeles counties is burning and producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is swirling around and has covered most of Ventura and Mercede counties, and portions of Sonoma and San Luis Obispo counties. A fire in Placer county in central California is producing a moderately dense and narrow plume of smoke that is moving to the northeast across the border into central Nevada county of California. Zhong