DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z JULY 3, 2008
North Carolina/Virginia: Moderate to isolated heavy smoke was moving east and northeast from the South 1 and Evans Rd fires. Mid Atlantic and New England: Residual light smoke from fires in Canada and California stretched from the Mid Atlantic through New England into southeast Canada. Great Lakes/Midwest/Plains: A ribbon of moderate smoke from fires in Saskatchewan, discernible at low sun angles, extended from the Great Lakes southwest across the Midwest and then northwest into the Plains. Western US: Heavy smoke was generally moving north and northeast from fires in California with the exceptions of a blaze near the coast in Santa Barbara County where heavy smoke was moving south and the Basin Complex and Indians fires which resulted in heavy smoke moving south. An extensive area of light smoke extended from southern California northward into British Columbia although it was obscured by cloud in northern Oregon and Washington. Arizona: The Lane 2 fire generated moderate with isolated heavy smoke which moved towards the southwest. Canada: Smoke from fires in Saskatchewan produced moderate with isolated dense smoke that moved towards the east and was not expected to imminently impact the US.