DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z September 09, 2007
California/Nevada/Oregon/Idaho/Utah/Wyoming/Colorado: A large wildfire on the border of Stanislaus and Santa Clara Counties in California is producing dense smoke that is moving primarily northward. The fire on the border of Plumas and Lassen Counties in California is producing smoke that is moving primarily northward and then eastward but some of the light to moderate smoke has moved westward over the Pacific. Fires in central Idaho are producing moderate smoke that is moving southward and then eastward. The combination of current and old smoke from these fires in Idaho and California results in light to moderate to dense smoke covering much of northern California, extreme southern Oregon, much of Idaho excluding northern Idaho, extreme northwestern Nevada, northern and central Utah, southern Wyoming, and northwestern and western Colorado. The densest smoke tends to be near the California fires and also in extreme southern Idaho, northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. Although only the southernmost part of Oregon is affected by smoke from these fires, there is a separate light to moderate smoke plume (originating from a fire in Polk County, Oregon) and that plume extends southwestward over the Pacific. Alaska: A strong and large fire in the central North Slope (at approx. 69N 150.5W) is producing a moderate to dense smoke plume that extends northward. (A much smaller fire to its east is producing a narrow plume that also extends northward.)