DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z SEPTEMBER 9, 2008
California: In northern California the Siskiyou/Blue 2 Complex, Rattle, Deerhorn, Elmore and Gulch fires in Del Norte, Siskiyou, and Trinity counties continue to emit moderately dense to dense smoke over norther California near the fires. This heavy smoke swirls about over northwest California with lighter smoke being picked up by the winds and carried into south central and east Oregon. Also there may be light smoke off the northern California coast but it is obscured by cloud cover. The fire in eastern Fresno county near Cedar Grove is producing light smoke in the valleys near the fire and also stretches eastward into Inyo county and southwest Nevada. Oregon: The Rattle Fire in southwestern Oregon is generating moderately dense smoke which is stationary in eastern Douglas county. The Lonesome Complex on the Klamath and Jackson county border is producing a thin plume of moderately dense smoke within the Rogue River National Forest. Colorado: The smoke from the fire located in west central Gunnison County yesterday has settled into a local valley and is relatively stationary. Minnesota/Wisconsin/U.P. Of Michigan/Ontario/Manitoba: Unknown aerosol, possibly SO2 from an Alaskan volcanic eruption, is seen stretching from eastern Manitoba into southwest Ontario, northeast Minnesota, the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, and eastern Wisconsin. -Sheffler/Warren/Ruminski