[Normal4me]

Does anything GOOD ever come out of Africa?!

[stillafreemind]

Just wondering..can any insects hop a ride on this thing?

[CindyDawg]

I'm sorry but my 1st thought was we could use it here. We ran out of sand bags:')

[dc-zoo]

Hurricane Sandy?

[taxesareforever]

''Most of it is going to be in the upper atmosphere,'' Wheeler said.

Oh oh. There goes the ozone. Paging Al Gore, paging Al Gore

[Conservative Infidel]

I guess this is what we get for not ratifying the Kyoto treaty...

[tutstar]

Who woulda thunk it?

[NonValueAdded]

Yea, I saw mention of this in the NHC's midday tropical discussion. There was mention of dust in one of the waves which seemed pretty strange but here we have something on our super one-stop-shopping source for information, Free Republic, that explains it all.

[JellyJam]

On the bright side, I hear this thing will bring us some bitchin' sunrises and sunsets.

[Thinkin' Gal]

NASA may have isolated shuttle glitch

[NonValueAdded]

From TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
805 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2005

Central Atlantic tropical wave along 44W/45W S of 22N moving W 15-20 kt with a 1011 mb low along the axis near 11N45W. The low Is faintly visible in satellite imagery and is embedded within a broad area of low pres near the itcz. Widespread dust/haze continues to move W with the wave and the dry air is limiting deep convection near and W of the axis. Low-level moisture being pulled nwd to the E is producing broken stratus with possible Showers S of 17N between 34W-44W.

Central Caribbean tropical wave along 70W S of 20N moving E 20 kt. San Juan upper air data show the mid-level part of the wave passing between 12z and 00z yesterday...and the low-level signature passed almost 12 hrs later. Satellite imagery suggests that the wave may be farther W near 74W based on sely streamer clouds extending from the srn windward islands to Jamaica...and this may be reflected in the 00z analysis. The wave marks the leading edge of the African dust surge...but dust concentrations do not appear to be as thick as they were for the past several days. Scattered moderate/strong convection over NW Venezuela and Nrn Colombia.

[NickatNite2003]

This after just reading a story about how sand
holds ten times as many bacteria as water. and
how it can keep several nasty kinds of bugs alive
in it...especially if it's wet.

[chickenlips]

Direct it north to Maryland and Delware to help with the beach restoration projects there.

[fish hawk]

On Arrakis (Dune) the dust storms can reach seven hundred miles per hour and eat the flesh off a man, even if he is wearing a stillsuit.

[xrp]

Nice. We send them billions in aid, forgive debt and they send us sandstorms and hurricanes in return. That's gratitude for ya!

[mikrofon]

"It's really not rare," said Joseph M. Prospero, a professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "We normally see several extreme dust events each year.

Prospero and the Tempest.

[HighlyOpinionated]

You realize of course that cutting down the rain forests in Brazil has resulted in less rain in Africa and is slowing turning that Continent into a huge sandbox.

Has something to do with the direction of the winds and the jet stream.