DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z AUGUST 16, 2008
California: The fires in northern California continue to burn emitting moderately dense to dense smoke which is moving to the north through Oregon nearly reaching Washington. In Santa Barbara County a fire is emitting light smoke which is fanning out to the south. Oregon: On the border of Lane and Linn counties a fire is producing light to moderately dense smoke which is moving to the north. Another fire in southern Umatilla County is emanating light smoke which is moving to the south into northern Grant County. Washington: A fire in southern Chelan County is emitting light to moderately dense smoke which is traveling east. There are several fires in the vicinity of Grant County which are generating light smoke which is moving to the west. Idaho: In Lewis and Idaho County there are several small fires which are emitting light smoke which is moving to the west. The South Barker Fire in northern Elmore County is producing light smoke which is fanning out to the east and south effecting the rest of the county and the neighboring county of Camas. Canada: There are many fires burning in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as southern portions of the Northwest Territories. The fires are located in a near line that runs from the Great Slave Lake, past Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake to the Hudson Bay. These fires are producing moderately dense to dense smoke which is traveling to the east. There is also a thin ribbon of haze that is moving west to east through northern Nunavut and another smaller ribbon in the southern Northwest Territories. These are SO2 and other gases from the Kasatochi eruption. There is a large plume of haze moving to the east to west in British Columbia. This is also SO2 from the Kasatochi eruption. -Salemi