DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2030 UTC August 6, 2007
California/Nevada/Idaho/Montana: The wildfire in Santa Barbara county in the Sierra Madre Mountains is producing a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving east across southern California. Moderate smoke is moving across northern Ventura and Los Angeles, southern Kern and central San Bernardino. Smoke is beginning to move into southern Nevada based on latest satellite imagery. Residual smoke from this wildfire is moving across parts of southern and central/eastern Nevada and into northwest Arizona, parts of western/central Utah and southern Wyoming. Idaho/Montana/Alberta/Saskatchewan/North Dakota: Wildfires in Idaho are producing thick smoke at the source, but moderate smoke across parts of Montana, southern Alberta and Saskatchewan and into parts of western North Dakota. Smoke in Montana is moderately dense and becomes light in North Dakota. J Kibler