DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 23, 2007
Alaska: The large cluster of fires on the southwest portion of the Kenai Peninsula are still burning today, but the smoke cannot be seen through satellite imagery due to thick weather clouds. The fire cluster north of Southeast Fairbanks are porducing thin to moderately dense plumes of smoke that are swirling around. A large area of smoke which is the residual smoke from the large fires burning in Alaska can be seen around Fairbanks and eastern Yukon-Koyukuk. Yukon/Northwest Territories/Alberta: The large fires west of Great Bear Lake are still producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that are mainly moving northerly. A new cluster of fires north of Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving southeastward. Fires south of Great Slave Lake are producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that are moving northeasterly. A new fire between Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving to the west northwest. The big fires west of Lake Athabasca in Alberta are still porducing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that are swirling around and has covered almost all the northern Alberta with the residual smoke from this morning's burning and possibly yesterday's. Quebec: A new fire in northern Quebec near Hudson Bay is producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is moving south southeasterly. The fires in central Quebes are still burning this morning, but it's difficult to see the smoke in satellite imagery due to thick clouds. However, it's believed that there is smoke produced through this evening. Montana: A fire in southwestern Judith Basin county is burning. It's producing smoke in two stages. Firstly, it produced a thin to moderately dense puff of smoke that is now extending to Garfield county. Then, this evening it exploded suddenly and produced a locally very dense plume of smoke that is moving to the northeast and has covered most of Judith Basin and Fergus counties. Idaho/Wyoming: The fires in Sublette county of Wyoming are still producing thin to moderately dense plumes of smoke that are moving easterly to the county boundary and has covered almost half of Sublette county. A fire in southern Oneida county of Idaho is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving northerly into northern Bannock county of Idaho. A fire in northern Blaine county of Idaho is producing a locally dense plume of smoke that is moving north northeasterly into northern Custer county of Idaho. California: A fire in Merced county is producing a thin puff of smoke that is moving mainly southward across Madera and Fresno counties into Kings county. Arizona: A fire in Coconino county is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving mainly easterly. A fire in Graham county is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving east southeasterly across the Graham-Cochise county boundary into northern Cochise county. Florida: A fire in Collier county is producing a locally dense to very dense plume of smokt that is moving east northeasterly across Browand county Palm Beach county into the Atlantic. It covered almost all of Browand county, southeastern corner of Palm Beach coutny, and eastern Collier county. A fire along Polk-Osceola county boundary is producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is fanning to the south and has covered the areas near the central of the boundary. A fire in Martin county produced a thin and narrow plume of smoke that was moving easterly into the Atlantic. Zhong