DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 6, 2007
Alaska: Numerous fires in central Alaska stretch from east central Alaska westward through the Yukon Valley in the central interior. Smoke from these fires is being obscured by extensive cloudiness in the region. The most extensive smoke observed is with a fire along the Yukon near Beaver. This dense smoke is drifting mainly to the south. Northwest Territories: Numerous fires are seen to the southeast of both Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. By days end all of the smoke from these fires was drifting to the northwest. The smoke from the fires southeast of Great Slave Lake was mainly dense while the smoke near Great Bear Lake was moderately dense to dense. A fire between Great Bear Lake and Fort Good Hope was producing a light to moderately dense plume that was moving to the northeast. Manitoba/Ontario/Northern Great Lakes: Several blazes in northern Manitoba were producing very thick smoke that was quickly moving to the southeast and reaching northwest Ontario along Hudson Bay. Residual smoke from these fires was dropping south across Lake Nippon and across east Lake Suprior. This smoke was mainly light to moderately dense. California: A fire in central Santa Barbara County is producing moderately dense to dense smoke that is fanning out to the east and the north. It stretched from eastern San Luis Obispo through southwest Kern, northern Ventura and eastern Santa Barbara. Utah: A fire near the border of Emery and Sanpete Counties is producing a thick smoke plume that extends toward the east into much of Emery county. Arizona: A fire rapidly exploded in the far northwest part of Mohave county before sunset. Clouds covered much of the region making smoke detection difficult but it seemed there was very dense smoke in the vicinity of the fire drifting to the west or northwest. Montana/Idaho/Oregon: A fire grew rapidly in southeast Flathead county Montana and was spreading a large plume of dense smoke to the southeast reaching to Fegus and Golden Valley counties near sunset. A blaze along the Oregon/Idaho border in western Idaho county was spreading a plume of mainly light smoke to the souther across eastern Wallowa county Oregon. A fire in northern Bingham county had a plume of light to moderate smoke drifting to the north into eastern Butte county. A fire in extreme northeast Lake county had a plume of moderately dsense to dense smoke spreading to the northeast covering much of Grant county and into southern Umatilla. Ruminski