DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 8, 2007
Arizona: Fires in central and eastern Arizona are producing light plumes of smoke that are extending to the northeast and to the east. Light smoke has crossed the border into western New Mexico. California: A fire on the Pacific Coast of Monterey county produced a quick puff of moderately dense smoke that moved to the southwest over the ocean. A small fire in central California is producing a locally dense plume of smoke. Lower Mississippi Valley: The enormous amounts of agricultural fires continue to burn throughout the Lower Mississippi Valley continue to burn today, but it is difficult to tell whether or not these are producing smoke due to the cloud cover; however there is a light area of haze over the area, so it may be a mixture of both clouds and smoke. Canada: Large fires in northern Alberta, just west of Lake Athabasca, are producing large amounts of dense smoke that is moving to the southeast and into western/central Saskatchewan. This smoke is covering most of eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan. Earlier in the day, light residual smoke could be seen moving to the west across northwest Northwest Territory and northern Yukon Territory. This smoke is from the large fire that burned late into last night in northern Yukon Territory. Banks