DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z September 29, 2006
California/Oregon/Idaho/Wyoming/Utah: The fires in northern California in Trinity and Siskiyou counties continue to produce smoke. The smoke has settled into the valleys surrounding the fires and is locally dense. Additional smoke has become lofted to higher levels and the plume extends to the northwest into southwest Oregon and out into the Pacific ocean this area is moderately dense. The smoke over the Pacific is difficult to delineate due to extensive low level clouds but it appears to extend up to 225 km offshore. The smoke then curves back to the east and becomes mainly thin with a narrow ribbon about 50 km wide extending from the central Oregon coast eastward across central Oregon and into southwest Idaho. The smoke extends to the southeast into south central Idaho along the Utah border and into southwest and south central Wyoming. The smoke over southeast Idaho and Wyoming likely is mixed with smoke from fires in central Idaho. Fires in Custer, Boise, Valley and Clearwater counties in Idaho are producing locally dense smoke in the valleys in their immediate vicinity. Ruminski