DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0220Z September 28, 2006
California/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/Oregon/Idaho/Montana/New Mexico/Northern Mexico/British Columbia: Northern California and Oregon: The fires burning in northern California in the Salmon and Siskiyou Mountains (Siskiyou and Trinity counties) are producing an area of dense smoke moving north along the California coast and into western Oregon. The dense smoke produced today combined with the thin smoke yesterday has covered northern California and western half of Oregon. The denest portions of the smoke locate in northwestern corner of California and sourthwestern corner of Oregon. Fires in Marney, Crook, Union, Morrow, and Wallowa counties of Oregon are porducing moderately dense plumes of southward or eastward smoke. Southern and Central California/Nevada/Arizona/New Mexico: The very large wildfire continuing to burn in Ventura county is producing an area of thick smoke that moved to west northwest. The dense portions of the smoke are now covering northern Los Angeles, northern Ventura, Santa Barbra, southwestern corner of Kern, and San Luis Obispo counties of southern California. A moderately dense smoke now is wandering around cenral California and has covered several big cities, including San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose. The residual moderately dense smoke from the fire has stretched to southern Nevada, northern and central Arizona, and western New Mexico. Mexico: A fire in northenr Mexico is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke taht is moving to the east. Nevada: A fire in White Pine county of western Nevada is porducing a moderately to dense plume of smoke moving to the east and reaching the border between Utah and Nevada. Idaho/Montana/British Columbia: A bunch of fires in Idaho Panhandle area are porducing moderately dense to dense plumes of smoke that are moving to the south or the east and has covered central of the Panhandle area. Several fires along the border of Boise and Valley counties and in western Custer county are producing moderately dense to denes plumes of smoke that are moving to the east. A fire in central Sanders county of western Montana is porducing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving eastward. Several fires in southern British Columbia of western Canada are producing moderately dense plumes of smoke moving easterly. Southern US: A lot of agricultural fires in southern US, including Texas, Liousianna, Mississippi, and Alabama, are producing thin to moderately dense plumes of short-time smoke. Zhong