DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0120Z UTC August 19, 2007
California/Nevada: The large fire in Santa Barbara County in southern California continues to produce extensive smoke over the Southwest. Very dense smoke extended to the northeast over western Kern County and southern Tulare County. Moreover, a swath of moderately dense to locally dense smoke across Nevada and southern Idaho into southern Montana where it has merged with the smoke from the large fires in Idaho and Montana. A swath of thin smoke is swirling just north of the Santa Barbara fires. Idaho/Montana/Dakotas/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba: Numerous persistent fires in Idaho and Montana are still burning and producing smoke; however, a large cloud system has covered almost all the fire areas except the firer in Blaine county of central Idaho. Therefore, only limited smoke can be seen in satellite imagery this evening, which has covered probably Idaho, Montana, southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Dakotas. Eastern US: A swath of thin to moderately dense smoke has covered most portion of the eastern half of continental US. Kansas: A fire in northern Edwards county of southern Kansas is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving both northwesterly and southeasterly. Gulf of Mexico: A swath of thin to moderately dense smoke has covered western half of Gulf of Mexico. Zhong