DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z JUNE 25, 2008
California/Western US: Several large conglomerates of wildfires in the north central part of the state are producing thick smoke which extends south throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Additional plumes of thick smoke stretch northeast across northern California into southeastern Oregon as well as across northwest Nevada into southern Idaho. A much larger area of light smoke stretches across Wyoming and then southeastward through the central Rockies and into the central and southern Plains. The Indian fire in Monterrey County generated dense smoke that extended southeastward along the coast and over the Channel Islands. Arizona: A narrow plume of smoke from the Hot Air wildfire in northern Greenlee county was moving east southeast before becoming obscured by clouds. Arkansas: Light residual smoke from ag fires was moving north across northeastern Arkansas, southeast Missouri and western Tennessee. North Carolina/Virginia: Moderately dense smoke from The South 1 fire moved north across the lower Chesapeake. Latest visible imagery suggests the smoke plume has veered to the east in the last hour. Light residual smoke extends into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast.