DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z UTC August 12, 2007
California/Nevada/Southeast Oregon/Southern Idaho The wildfires burning in Santa Barbara and Fresno/Monterey counties have continued to produce a large area of light to moderately dense smoke across the western US. Moderately dense smoke stretches from central/eastern California north into northwest Nevada. Smoke moving across central and north central Nevada and into southeast Oregon and southern Idaho is mostly thin in nature. Inter-Mountains West/Northern Rockies/Southern Canada: Wildfires in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana are emitting an area of moderately dense to dense smoke stretching across a large part of the northern US and southern Canada. Dense smoke stretches east NE across northern Montana into southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. A very dense pocket of smoke is seen across southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba. Light to moderately dense smoke is extending across central Alberta east into central Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Another pocket of light to moderately dense smoke stretches from northern Wyoming/southeastern Idaho east into parts of central/southern Montana. Oregon/Washington: Remnant light smoke from the wildfire in Jefferson county can be seen moving north across northern Oregon and into southern/central Washington. Southeast US/Gulf of Mexico: An area of haze mixed with very thin remnant smoke from the western US wildfires can be seen off the Georgia coast west SW across northern Florida and into the northern Gulf of Mexico. Upper Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lake/Southern Canada: An area of light smoke is seen extending across central/southern Minnesota east NE across northern/central Wisconsin and into southern Ontario and Quebec. Smoke is most likely from the wildfires in the western US. J Kibler