DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z OCTOBER 21, 2007

Southern California:
Wildfires burning in central Santa Barbara and southern Los Angeles
counties are producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving southwest
off the coast.  Smoke is moving over the Channel and Santa Catalina
Islands and into the Pacific Ocean.
A fire in southwest San Bernardino county is producing a moderately
dense plume of smoke moving southwest across Orange county and into the
Pacific Ocean.
Another fire can be seen in northeast Los Angeles county, but so far no
smoke is visible.

Arizona:
A fire burning in the Grand Canyon National Park (Coconino county) just
north of the town of Supai is emitting a light plume of smoke moving
south across the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Coconino Plateau.

J Kibler

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.