DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z JUNE 11, 2008
North Carolina: Heavy to moderate smoke from the Evans Road fire in eastern North Carolina extended along the Atlantic seaboard from near the North Carolina/South Carolina border up through Cape Cod. Some thin smoke had spread inland through the Mid Atlantic states into southeast New England. However, most of the moderate to thick smoke extends eastward from the blaze into the Atlantic. Northern Saskatchewan: Numerous large fires continue to burn over northern Saskatchewan west of Reindeer Lake and around Lake Athabasca. These fires are producing a large amount of dense to very dense smoke which is swirling around and gradually spreading outward. The smoke extent now covers much of the area between Great Slave Lake and Lake Winnipeg, including northeast Alberta and much of northern Manitoba. California: Several fires developed quickly in central California in the afternoon and produced plumes of smoke that mainly drifted to the south. A fire in northeast Sonoma county had light to moderately dense smoke that swirled around northern Sonoma and then drifted south over the Pacific and northern Marin county. A fire in Solano county had light to moderate smoke that drifted south across Contra Costa. A fire in central Sacramento county had a narrow smoke plume that extended south into southeast Stanislaus. A fire in extreme southwest Tuolumne county had a plume of light to locally moderately dense smoke that extended south across Mariposa into Madera. A fire along the central Madera/Fresno border had a plume of moderate to locally dense smoke that reached into northwest Tulare. Finally, a fire in the Las Padres National Forest near Tassajara generated a large plume of dense smoke that moved south over the whole western length of San Luis Obispo and extending about 65 km off the coast. Colorado: A fire that developed rapidly over northern Las Animas county has a plume of moderately dense smoke that extended to the northeast into northeast Bent county. Arizona: A pair of blazes in nortwest Coconino and northern Gila counties has narrow plumes of thin smoke that extended to the northeast less than 75 km. Georgia: A fire in southern Effingham county this afternoon produced a light to moderately dense smoke plume that extended to the east and then southeast across Chatham county and off the coast. Ruminski