DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
Northwestern U.S. and British Columbia: Wildfires in Washington, Oregon and extreme northwestern California continue to produce a large area of light to moderate smoke with small areas of dense smoke. The smoke covers almost all of Washington, most of Oregon (except for parts of southern Oregon), extends southward into extreme northwestern California, and northward into southern British Columbia, and eastward into northern Idaho. The smoke seems particularly dense in western Oregon. In addition to this large smoke area centered on Washington/Oregon, there are numerous fires creating smaller separate areas of light to moderate smoke including a fire in central Idaho, one in central Montana, several in southern Wyoming, and several in southern British Columbia. These smoke plumes tend to extend northward or northeastward (except for the eastward plume from the Montana fire).