DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z October 25, 2006
Southern Canada/Minnesota/Northeastern North Dakota: Yesterday, there were a tremendous number of what were believed to be primarily agricultural fires detected across the southern portions of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Provinces of southern Canada as well as the eastern half of North Dakota. Early morning GOES-West visible imagery today showed what appeared to be a region of thin haze stretching from around Lake Manitoba southeastward across northeastern North Dakota and northern and central Minnesota to near the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. This area of thin haze could possibly contain some remnant smoke from the large number of fires detected in the region yesterday. JS