Sunday, August 5, 2007

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

 


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.