DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Pacific Northwest and Southwest Canada to northern Great Plains: A large area of mostly thin smoke originating from fires in western Oregon and northern California extends north across the Pacific Northwest into southern British Columbia. From there the smoke extends east across the southern half of Alberta, southern third of Saskatchewan into far southern Manitoba, eastern Montana and the Dakotas. Some of the smoke can be moderately dense from British Columbia to North Dakota. The very leading edge of the thin smoke may extend as far east as Minnesota to southern Hudson Bay. Kusselson