DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z May 23 2008
California: A 3000 acre wildfire continues to burn in the Santa Cruz Mountains (Santa Cruz and southwest Santa Clara counties) producing dense to very dense smoke moving south along the California coast. Very dense smoke spreads south into western/central sections of Monterey county with moderately dense to dense smoke moving into the western sections of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo counties and across the Channel Islands. Most of the very dense smoke is remaining off the California coast. Minnesota/North Dakota: A fire in Roseau county is producing moderately dense smoke moving west into Kittson county Minnesota and into Pembina county in northeast North Dakota. Another fire is burning on the border of Pennington and Marshall counties with light smoke moving west into Polk county. Multiple fires are burning across northern/central Polk county with multiple plumes of light smoke moving west into counties in northeast North Dakota. In central Aitken county a fire is producing moderately dense smoke moving west into Crow Wing and Cass counties. Moderately dense smoke is also moving south SW into Kanabee and Mille Lacs counties. In northern Morrison county a fire is emitting light smoke west into Otter Tail, Todd and northern sections of Grant and Douglas counties. Alabama/Georgia: A fire on the border of Talladega and Clay counties is producing dense smoke moving north into Calhoun county. Light to moderately dense smoke is moving east into Randolph, Cleburne and Clay counties in Alabama and Haralson, Carroll, Heard and sections of western Fulton and Douglas counties. Washington: A fire in central Yakima county (near the town of Goose Prairie) is producing light to moderately dense smoke southeast across the county (staying within county borders). Earlier Today: Gulf of Mexico/Texas Gulf Coast/Florida: There is an area of haze throughout the entire Gulf of Mexico which appears to be remnants of smoke from the fires in the Yucatan Peninsula. The haze extends up the east coast of Texas and is being carried eastward over southern Florida and the Bahamas in the westerly flow to the south of a frontal boundary.