DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 12, 2006
Canada/the Dakotas: Wildfires east of Lake Winnipeg (eastern Manitoba/western Ontario) are producing thick smoke moving north across both provinces to Hudson Bay. These fires have been burning since last Thursday. In central Ontario, just north of Lake Superior, there are several large fires surrounding Lake Nipigon producing locally dense smoke moving to the north. The overall smoke coverage from the fires in central Canada (mentioned above) extends from southeastern Saskatchewan and stretches to central Quebec. The densest smoke is west of Quebec, west and central Ontario, and east of Manitoba. A strip of smoke residues from the northwestern US fires is moving east and has covered a vertical belt area including the central Dakotas and south of central Manitoba or Canada. Two big fires in northern Alberta are producing moderately dense plumes of smoke moving east to west of Lake Athabasca. A fire in east of central Saskatchewan is producing moderately dense to dense plume that is moving east to the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. California/Oregon: The fire on the border of Ventura and Los Angele's are producing a plume of moderately dense to dense smoke moving west across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties to the Pacific. The wildfires in the Siskiyou and Salmon Mountains continue to produce dense smoke moving north and has covered southwestern corner of Oregon and northwestern California. The densest smoke is also swirling around northern Trinity county and western Siskiyo county of northern California. A fire along the border of Klamath and Douglas counties in southwestern Oregon is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving north and is connected with the smoke from Siskiyou and Salmon Mountains fires covering eastern Oregon. A fire in Placer county (Eldorado National Forest), of central California is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving to all the direction but east. The massive area of smoke combining with the smoke in northwestern California has covered the northern half of California. The densest portions of the smoke are around Trinity and Siskiyou counties in the north and Eldorado National Forest. Washington/British Columbia: The wildfire in Okanogan National Forest in northern Washington is producing dense smoke moving east NE to British Columbia of Canada. The thickest part of the smoke plume is in southern British Columbia and northern Washington. In southeast Washington, the fire in Umatilla National Forest is producing an area of thick smoke moving east across southeastern corner of Washington into Panhandle area of Idaho. Idaho/Montana: Decades of fires in Panhandle area of Idaho are burning and producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that is moving east NE and has covered most of Idaho. Two large fires in Park and Sweet Grass counties are producing locally dense plumes of smoke that is moving south SE across southern Park, southern Sweet Grass, Stillwater, and Carbon counties into northern Wyoming. Several small fires along the Idaho-Montana boundary are producing narrow and moderately dense plumes of smoke moving east NE. Zhong