DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z September 18, 2006
California: Big fires in Siskiyo and Trinity counties of northern California are still burning and producing moderately dense to dense plumes of smoke swirling around and has covered northern half of Trinity county. The large fires in Ventura County have produced a large amount of dense smoke that is moving west SW across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties to the Pacific. Another fire along the border of Riverside and San Bernardino is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving southwest across Orange county to the Pacific. The densest portion of the overall smoke from the fires mentioned above covered all Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, and western Riverside counties; the thin portion of the smoke influences Los Angeles. Zhong