DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z JULY 13, 2008
California/Great Basin/Central Rockies/Central Plains/Great Lakes: Heavy, dense smoke from the numerous fires burning in northern California covered much of the northern and central portions of the state and extreme southern Oregon with light to moderate smoke over most of the remainder of southern California. The heavy to moderately dense smoke also extended eastward into much of northern and central Nevada, and northern Utah. Light to moderate smoke then continued eastward across Colorado and northern New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Moderate to dense smoke extended off much of the California coast southward across the Channel Islands to offshore of the Baja Peninsula. Washington: A fire along the Chelan/Douglas county border north of Wenatchee had a plume of dense smoke extending east and southeast into Adams county with a broader area of light smoke reaching northward to the Canadian border over eastern Okanogan and western Ferry. Saskatchewan/Central Northwest Terriorites/Manitoba/Northern Plains/Ontario: Two fires in Northwest Territories are adding smoke to the broader region. One fire was on the western shore of Great Slave Lake and the other north of Lake Athabasca. The smoke initially extended east of the fires and became mixed with a larger area of smoke that wrapped counterclockwise around a large storm system southeast of Lake Winnipeg. The light to moderately dense smoke covered much of eastern Saskatchewan, western Manitoba, the Dakotas, southern Minnesota, northwest Wisconsin, across Lake Superior and into Ontario. Hawaii: It is likely that there is some smoke mixed in with the tremendous amount of vog being generated from the volcano as the lava flows over vegetated areas. The smoke is moving to the south-southwest over the open ocean. A brief fire on Maui early this morning had a puff of smoke that moved to the west and quickly dissipated. Alaska: There are a few fires in the interior: about 100 km south of Tanana, near Bettles and southeast of Ambler. Clouds make smoke identification difficult but it is likely that there is smoke being generated from these blazes. The smoke would most likely be drawn northward. New England/Mid Atlantic: There is possibly an area of remnant smoke mixed with clouds and haze that is seen extending from eastern Virginia and Maryland across New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, southeast New York and southern New England. Ruminski