DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z October 28, 2006
California: A very large area of smoke was visible this morning in GOES-West imagery extending from the Esperanza Fire in Riverside County westward to well off the coast over the Pacific. The thin to moderately dense mass of smoke (with locally thicker smoke immediately in the vicinity of the fire) fans out and elongates in a northwest to southeast direction as it moves out over the Pacific. The northward extent of the smoke appears to be running parallel to the coast with some it actually over the coastal counties of southern and central California from Los Angeles County to at least as far northwest as Monterey County. The southern portion of the smoke does appear to be affecting regions of far southern California including San Diego as well as northwestern Baja in Mexico. A small smoke plume was detected moving to the west-southwest from a fire in western Siskiyou County in northwestern California. Oregon: A patch of relatively thin smoke was observed this morning moving to the west across southwestern Oregon including portions of Coos, Douglas, Curry, Josephine, Jackson, Lane, Deschutes, Klamath, and Lake counties. The source for this smoke is likely attributable to the number of fires detected over southern and southwestern Oregon as well as far northern California yesterday. JS