DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1515Z JUNE 29, 2008
North Carolina/Virginia: The South 1 wildfire is emitting light smoke seen stretching northeast across the Dismal Swamp along the border of North Carolina and Virginia. Smoke continues to moves and stretch northeast into the Atlantic along the East Coast States. Northern/Central Plains/Middle Mississippi Valley: An area of light to moderately dense smoke from wildfires burning in Saskatchewan is seen pushing south across central Canada and into the Northern/Central Plains (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, eastern Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and western Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and southern Illinois) before beginning to wrap up in low moving across the Upper Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley. The thickest smoke stretches south across southwest Manitoba and central North and South Dakota and Nebraska. California/Oregon/Washington/British Columbia: A large area of light to moderately dense smoke extends north from Northern California across western Oregon and Washington State and is moving over Vancouver Island and into southwest British Columbia. The smoke is from fires burning in California the previous day. The Basin Complex fires in Monterrey County California (Big Sur) are producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving north along the coast and reaching the Bay Area. Full coverage of the smoke cannot be determined due to the marine layer. The wildfire burning in central to northeast Kern County (Greenhorn Mountains) is emitting a long narrow plume of light to moderately dense smoke north into Tulare county. J Kibler