DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 19, 2007

Quebec:
Numerous fires continue to rage across parts of central Quebec and
are producing mostly moderate to very dense plumes of smoke across the
province. The smoke from the more western fires close to James Bay is
lifting to the north but the smoke then arc more to the east toward
Labrador. Some remnant smoke from the fires on Sunday had dropped across
portions of Maine and into the Atlantic earlier in the afternoon.

Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic:
A broad area of smoke, likely mixed with some haze, was seen lifting
to the north ahead of a cold front and extended from eastern Kentucky
northward across Ohio and eastern Michigan into southern Ontario. The
source of the smoke was the large number of agricultural fires from
the past several days in the mid Mississippi Valley. A broad area of
moderate to thick haze also extended across the mid Atlantic staes from
West Virginia across Virginia and the Delmarva into the Atlantic. There
may be some smoke mixed in with this haze also.

Alberta/Saskatchewan into the northern Plains:
The Complex of fires in Wood Buffalo National Park just west of Lake
Athabasca continues to produce moderately dense to thick smoke. The
smoke area is south-southeast across most of Saskatchewan and reaches
into northeast Montana and western North Dakota.

California:
A fire in southwest Tulare county near Johnsondale in the Sequoia
National Forest has produced a narrow plume of thin smoke that extends
to the notheast reaching the Inyo county border.

Colorado:
A fire in eastern Garfield county is producing a moderately dense
plume that extends to the east and reached the Continental Divide by
sunset. Another fire in northeast Mesa county had a narrow thin plume
of smoke extending to the east-northeast.

Northwest Canada:
A pair of blazes in northwest Canada are producing very dense smoke
that is dropping south and just about reaching the northern border of
British Columbia. One blaze is in the Yukon near Faro and the other is
in the Northwest Territories close to Norman Wells.

Alaska:
A fire in east central Alaska near Circle Hot Springs is producing a
small plume of smoke that is drifting to the west.

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Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.