DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
California: The long running fire in eastern Del Norte county had a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that was fanning out and moving to the south. The smoke covered much of the northern half of Humboldt county by sunset as well as southwest Siskiyou up to the Trinity border. Two puffs of light to moderately dense smoke were seen from fires in southwest Butte and western Yuba counties. The smoke drifted to the northeast. The fire in eastern Fresno and northern Tulare counties had a small area of dense smoke in the valleys in the vicinity of the fires. Light smoke was spreading to the southwest over much of western Tulare and also to the east into northern Inyo. Great Lakes to the Northeast: An area of mainly light smoke was seen extending from Wisconsin across the lower Great Lakes over southern Michigan, northern Ohio, northern Pennsylvania, much of New York and across central New England out into the Atlantic. This is residual smoke from the fires in the Pacific northwest. Arizona: A fire in southern Coconino south of Flagstaff had a narrow plume of thin smoke extending about 55 km to the northeast. Louisiana/Arkansas: A fire in Lincoln parish in northern Louisiana had a plume of moderately dense smoke that lifted to the northwest across Claiborne and northern Webster parishes and into southern Columbia county in Arkansas. Ruminski