DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z JUNE 30, 2008
New England: Light residual smoke from the South 1 and Evans Road wildfires was noted off the northern New England coast. Clouds were hampering smoke detection off the Eastern Seaboard and in the vicinity of the fires. Plains/Midwest/Mississippi Valley/Southern Canada: An area of moderately dense smoke from wildfires burning in northern Saskatchewan and far western Manitoba advanced south across southern Manitoba into Minnesota and extreme eastern North and South Dakota. Additional light smoke was more wide spread across the central/southern Plains and mid/lower Mississippi Valley though the source of this area may include, or be entirely due to, the Lane 2 fire in Arizona. Arizona: Moderate to heavy smoke extended over 600 km from the Four Corners to southwest Arizona in association with the Lane 2 fire. Western US/Canada: Heavy smoke from the Piute and Clover fires extended nearly 600 km north northwest into western Nevada. Moderate to isolated heavy smoke covered portions of northern California and southern Oregon. A massive area of light residual smoke from the California fires extended northward across the Pacific Northwest into British Columbia and then eastward across Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canada: In northern Saskatchewan, a fire just north of Lake Athabasca near the town of Uranium City has produced dense smoke that extended 1000 km to Hudson Bay.