DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z AUGUST 26, 2008
Idaho/Utah/Nevada/Wyoming: Extremely thick smoke extended over 400 km to the northeast of the East Slide Rock Ridge, South Barker and Border Complex fires while moderately dense smoke extended east and northeast from the Gunbarrel fire and from a new fire in southern Salt Lake County, Utah. Residual light to moderate smoke covered portions of Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansans and Saskatchewan. Cloud cover was inhibiting the detection of smoke from other prominent fires, such as the Cottonwood. Thick plumes of blowing dust stretched from western Nevada northeastward to near the Oregon and Idaho borders. Minnesota: Light smoke moved north into southern Manitoba from a handful of fires near the border.