DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z JULY 18, 2008
Virginia: Earlier in the day, two small fires one located in south King William county and the other in Appomattox county were emitting light smoke which traveled to the southwest each extending over 60km. Southeastern US: In Liberty county on the panhandle of Florida, Decatur county in southwestern Georgia and Covington county in southern Alabama fires are producing light to moderately dense smoke which is moving to the south over the Gulf of Mexico. Arkansas: A fire in the northern portion of Nevada county is emitting light to moderately dense smoke which is traveling to the north. Mid and Southern California: The Basin Complex in Monterey county continues to generate dense smoke which is moving to the south and is in the northern portion of San Luis Obispo county. At the border of California and Arizona in Imperial county CA, several fires are emanating light smoke which is traveling to the northeast into Lapaz county Arizona. Northern California: The fires in Northern CA continue to produce dense smoke. Today the smoke was mainly moving to the east. Dense smoke covers the area surrounding the fires near the Pacific coast with moderately dense smoke extending over northeastern CA through northern Nevada, southeastern Oregon and central Idaho. Light smoke from the northern CA fires can be seen through Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. Washington: The fire near the Mt. Adams is emitting light to moderately dense smoke which is fanning out through Skamania, Klickitat and Yakima counties. Northern US: There is a ribbon of SO2 from the Okmok volcano extending from the Pacific coast of Washington, through northern Idaho, northern Montana, southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Hawaii: Smoke is coming from vent near the Puna coast on the south side of the Big Island of Hawaii which may be to burning vegetation. The smoke extends 50km off shore to the west where is merges with the gases coming from Halema`uma`u vent. Northwest Territories/Manitoba: On the northwestern shore of the Great Slave Lake a fire continues to emit dense smoke which is moving to the northeast. Several other fires north of the coast fire are generating moderately dense to dense smoke which is also moving to the northeast where it joins with the smoke from the coast fire. There are more smaller fires on the southeast coast of the lake which are also producing moderately dense to dense smoke which is moving northeast. Moderately dense to dense smoke from fires burning between the Manitoba territory line and Lake Athabasca is quasi stationary but the western fires have a drift to the the south while the smoke from the more eastern fires is moving east. The smoke from these fires extends close to Reindeer Lake. -Salemi