DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 13, 2006
Canada/Minnesota: 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 dense smoke moving to the north. There are more fires further north of Lake Nipigon are producing thick plumes of smoke that is moving north. The overall smoke coverage from the fires in central Canada (mentioned above) extends from southern Manitoba and eastern half of Ontario across Hudson Bay to central and northern Quebec. A narrow strip of thin smoke connected with the large area of smoke also has scanned from west to east and now covers central Minnesota. The densest smoke is west and central Ontario and northern Quebec. California/Oregon: The fire on the border of Ventura and Los Angele's are producing a plume of 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 east NE 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 wildfires in Okanogan National Forest and western Chelan county in northern Washington are producing dense smoke moving east NE and has covered southern British Columbia of Canada and the counties of Chelan and Okanogan in northern Washington. The thickest part of the smoke plume is in southern British Columbia and northern Chelan county and southern Okanogan county in Washington. Southern Washington/Idaho/Montana/northern Wyoming: In southeast Washington, the fire in Umatilla National Forest is producing a big area of thick smoke moving east NE across southeastern corner of Washington into Panhandle area of Idaho. Decades of fires in Panhandle area of Idaho are burning and producing very 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 east SE across Park, Sweet Grass, Stillwater, Carbon, Big Horn, and Yellowstone counties into northern Wyoming. More than ten wildfires spreading as a line in the west of Montana from south to north are producing very dense plumes of smoke moving east NE. The overall smoke produced from the fires mentioned above has covered southeastern corner of Washington, almost all of Idaho, western half of Montana, and north of central Wyoming. Zhong