DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z JUNE 24, 2008
Western US: A large complex of wildfires are producing smoke that spreads northeast across lower southeast Oregon to southern Idaho. Older light smoke from these fires can be found over most of Nevada, Utah and Northern Arizona. Another large fire near Big Sur is producing thick smoke that is moving south along the coast to the Channel Islands west of Los Angeles. A fire in northern Greenlee county of Arizona is producing a plume of smoke that was moving east and dissipates over central New Mexico. Central US: A small streak of old western US smoke can be seen dissipating from central N. Dakota into central Minnesota west of Duluth. Eastern US: Continuing fires from the eastern Virginia North Carolina border south to the Dismal Swamp are producing smoke over the outer banks and off the coast of the N. Carolina. Canada: Smoke can be seen extending from the northwestern corner of Great Slave Lake west of Yellowknife northwest across southern Great Bear Lake and continuing to the northwest to near Fort McPherson.