DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z AUGUST 01, 2008
Impact of Western Fires: The combination of fires in northern California, the Cascade fire in Montana, the New Fork fire in Wyoming, and two fires in Park County, Wyoming, one of which is the Gunbarrel fire, and have resulted in: Heavy dense smoke stretching from northern California into southern Oregon with moderately dense smoke extending farther across eastern Oregon, southeast Washington and northern Idaho; Heavy dense smoke near the source of the Montana and Wyoming fires with moderately dense smoke extending as much as 350 km east northeast; A narrow band of moderately dense residual smoke from north central Nebraska across southeastern South Dakota and into southern Minnesota; and A large area of light smoke that covered at least portions of the Northwest, northern Rockies, the northern and central Plains, the Midwest and Ohio Valley. Impact of Canadian Fires: Smoke from the large fires that have been burning in northern Saskatchewan and around Great Slave Lake was difficult to discern this evening due to cloud cover however a large area of light smoke was seen in the Northwest Territories. Colorado: Moderate smoke cast a pall over an area near the Colorado-New Mexico border in the vicinity of the border between La Plata and Montezuma counties of Colorado. Light with isolated moderate smoke was moving northeast from a fire in Montrose County.