DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200 UTC August 6, 2007
British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Ontario/Quebec/Idaho/Montana/ Dakotas/Minnesota/eastern half United States/Gulf of Mexico: The big fires in southeastern British Coumbia, Idaho and Valley counties of Idaho, and Flathead and Lake counties of Montana are still buring and it cannot tell if these fires are still producing smoke due to thick weather clouds. However, a large belt area of moderately dense to locally dense smoke has covered the areas including: northern Idaho, all the Montana, southeastern British Columbia, southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, all of North Dakota, northern South Dakota, all of Minnesota, southern Ontario, and southern Quebec. Furthermore, a large area of thin to moderately dense smoke has covered all of the eastern half United States and the most portion of east Gulf of mexico. California: The large fires in Santa Barbara are producing locally very dense plumes of smoke that are moving northeasterly across western Santa Barbara, northwestern Los Angeles, Kern, northwestern San Bernardino, and the Nevada-California border in Inyo county of eastern California into southern Nye county of southern Nevada. Michigan: The big fire in northern Luce county of Upper Michigan is producing a locally very dense plume of smoke that is moving northerly then easterly across Lake Superior into southern Ontario and is merging with the smoke from the Northwest US and southeastern British Columbia fires. Louisiana: A fire in western Vermilich county of southern Louisiana is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving easterly into central St. Mary county. Northwest Territories: A fire north of Great Slave Lake is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving easterly. Zhong