DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130 September 07, 2006
Northern California/Northwestern US/Northern and Central Plains/Upper and Central Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes/Ohio Valley/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 south of 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. Almost all of the smoke plumes are dense, and the lighter portion or moderately dense portion of the smoke plumes are only on the southern and eastern edge areas around the smoke, such as Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Southern and central California/western Nevada: The big fire near border between Ventura and Los Angeles counties continues to burn and has produced a locally very dense plume of smoke that is swirling around and has covered most of Ventura and Mercede counties, and Los Angeles counties. Especially, the densest portion of the smoke plume is moving to the southeast across southern Los Angeles, eastern Riverside, and Mono counties into central San Diego county of southern California. Another big fire in Placer county in central California is producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is moving to the northeast across Nevada and Sierra counties of California into southern Woshoe county of western Nevada. Zhong