DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z JULY 8, 2008
Eastern North Carolina/Middle Atlantic Coast: Light haze and smoke is visible throughout northeastern North Carolina, southeastern Virginia and the Cheasapeake Bay region. California: The large fire east of Red Bluff is emitting very thick smoke this morning and, along with a large number of other fires in northern California, moderate smoke covers most of the Sacramento Valley and coastal northwest California. This smoke is carried well offshore to perhaps as much as 300 nautical miles westsouthwest of San Francisco before becoming unobservable in a marine layer of low clouds. Northern Plains: Smoke that was over the northwestern U.S. yesterday has now been carried eastward into the northern Plains and can be seen, in between clouds, covering portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. A separate narrow band of smoke is stretched from southern Saskatchewan in Canada, to northern North Dakota. Alaska: Conditions are too cloudy for specific observation of smoke in Alaska this morning but there may be some residul smoke still lingering in the northern Yukon of northwest Canada. Baldwin