DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z UTC August 14, 2007

A ring of smoke covers a large portion of the US this morning with the
smoke being generated from the larger number of fires burning in Idaho
and Montana and in southern California. The blaze in Santa Barbara county
California is producing a plume of moderately dense to locally dense smoke
that extends northward from the fire across the central Sierra Nevadas,
across Nevada and into southwest Idaho. The smoke is most dense over
much of Santa Barbara and northwest Ventura counties.

A huge area of elevated dense smoke then extends eastward from the
fires in western Montana and Idaho. The smoke covers Montana, southern
Saskatchewan and Manitoba, all of North Dakota and Minnesota and northern
Iowa. The smoke thins out somewhat across the Great Lakes with another
area of moderately dense smoke over the eastern Great Lakes and over
southeast Ontario, western New York and western Pennsylvania.

Residual smoke from the western fires can still be seen mixed with haze
extending from off the North Carolina coast back to the west southwest
covering most of the Carolinas, northern Florida, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi before fading in Louisiana.


Pacific Northwest

A fire in southeast Siskiyou county near Pondosa is producing a small
area of swirling moderately dense smoke within about 30 km of the fire.

A fire near Mt Jefferson in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in
Jefferson county Oregon is spreading an area of thin smoke to the west
and northwest across Multnomah, Clackamas and Marion counties in Oregon
and Skamania county in Washington.

A fire Chelan county near Lucerne is producing moderately dense to
locally dense smoke in much of the Stehekin valley. An narrow plume of
moderatelt dense smoke extends to the east into western Okanogan county.

A fire near the junction of the borders of Stevens and Pend Oreille
counties in Washington and British Columbia is producing a narrow plume
of moderately dense smoke that is lifting to the northeast further into
British Columbia.

Ruminski

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.