DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
Pacific Northwest and Southwest Canada to northern Great Plains: Cloud cover severely hampered identifying individual smoke plumes from the various fires and complexes burning in the Pacific northwest but a ribbon of moderately dense smoke stretched from south central Alberta, across southern Saskatchewan into southwest Manitoba while lighter residual smoke covered portions of the Dakotas, northeast Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Southern California: Light to moderate smoke from fires in Tulare and Fresno counties up to 60 km to the northeast before mixing with blowing dust on the east side of the Sierras.