DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z OCTOBER 30, 2007

Southern California:
Cloudiness over southern California prevented any smoke detection in
the immediate vicinity of the fires.

Offshore of Central and Southern California:
Old remnant smoke offshore from the southern California fires appears to
have been entrained into a low pressure system approaching the coast of
central California. The northern portion of the apparent band of thin
smoke reached the coastal portions of southern California near Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties by early evening.

Central High Plains to the Southern Plains/Lower Mississippi Valley:
Very thin possible remnant smoke was visible this morning in GOES-West
imagery with the favorable low sun viewing angle extending from eastern
Wyoming/western Nebraska/eastern Colorado southeastward across portions of
the Central and Southern Plains to southeastern Texas/Louisiana/western
Mississippi. This possible smoke was not visible later in the day even
using GOES-East imagery during its favorable viewing angle time prior
to sunset.

South Central Canada/North Dakota/Western Minnesota:
An amazing number of what are believed to be primarily agricultural
fires were detected across southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern
Manitoba provinces of south central Canada, as well as central, northern,
and northeastern North Dakota, and western Minnesota. Surprisingly, just
over a dozen of these fires had visible smoke plumes in satellite imagery.

Southeastern Texas/Southwestern Louisiana/Western Gulf of Mexico:
Large dense smoke plumes flared up this afternoon from fires buring in
southern and southeastern Jefferson County of far southeastern Texas and
western and eastern Cameron Parish of far southwestern Louisiana. These
dense plumes combined to form a large mass of smoke which spread
southwestward over the western Gulf of Mexico and the coastal counties of
southeastern Texas from Jefferson to Matagorda. Farther to the northwest,
another rather dense smoke plume was observed moving to the southwest
from a fire in southern Walker County of eastern Texas.

Hawaii:
A fire in the northern portion of the big island of Hawaii was emitting
a thin to locally moderately dense smoke plume which spread northwestward
and offshore during the day.

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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.