Massive dust cloud from Sahara Desert drifting 5,000 miles over Atlantic towards the US; Brings Scorching Temps, Poor Air Quality for 5 States

Daily Mail UK ^ | 7/7/23 | Laura Parnaby

[spirited irish]

A massive Sahara Desert dust cloud is drifting 5,000 miles over the Atlantic towards the US - and experts have warned it could bring extreme heat while impacting air quality in five southeastern states.

Skies over Florida, along with southern swathes of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, will look 'a little hazy' and could turn brown from the sandy plume as it lingers over the weekend.

Along with haze, the desert dust will catalyze scorching temperatures of around 105 degrees in the Sunshine State and an uptick in allergies - but it will also bring brighter sunsets and suppress tropical thunderstorms, meteorologists have said.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.inquirer.com/weather/sahara-air-layer-dust-storm-2020-atlantic-hurricane-20200626.html

[waterhill]

Must be nice. East TX could use some rain.

[Chgogal]

Excellent news for the five states! The dust helps block hurricane formation.

[llevrok]

The Sahara used to have vegetation long before “man made” glow-bull warming created a desert 🏜

[SunkenCiv]

• NASA video shows how dust from Sahara Desert fuels Amazon rain forest [02/28/2015]
• Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation and chemistry [05/10/2013]

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• Saharan dust plume with high values moving over Europe [02/07/2021]
• Sahara Dust Storm To Cover Half Of The United States [06/22/2020]
• Massive Sahara dust plume headed for southeastern US, could bring sensational sunsets [06/19/2020]
• Sahara Dust Cloud heads for Florida! [07/23/2005]

[Lizavetta]

I thought Bidens plan was to block part of the sun to slow down Climate Change

He's much too busy curing cancer.

[waterhill]

Kinda jealous, but not really. Just want rain. It hot here in TX

[GOPJ]

And those dust clouds bring beautiful sunsets... not that we want the tradeoff.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey, let’s tell the rain when it gets to Florida to swing back West in the Gulf to hit the Texas coast and Northward. No sense wasting it all over the Atlantic!

[pas]

Is this in retaliation for Canada smoke?

[mabarker1]

FR needs to panic due to fill in the blank: SQUIRREL !!!

[waterhill]

May I ask where in AK? You must be way north. Had a friend in Fairbanks, he got mad at 80 degrees.

[waterhill]

No kidding.

[BipolarBob]

He's much too busy curing cancer.

Hence, the medicinal healing properties of cocaine experiments. People are so quick to judge our Scientist-in-Chief.

[Beowulf9]

Well, Az is next to Texas but it looks like it’s entering in the gulf so maybe only the bottom area to the right of Texas and not Az at all (isn’t even claimed).

We hit 117 on the sixth. It’s the time we do this and the heat brings in the t-storms. So much fun.

[Sacajaweau]

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/6/BAMS-D-19-0309.1.xml

[butlerweave]

but they said blocking the Sun would cool the planet ,D’oh they should get their crap together ,LOL

[Sacajaweau]

don’t forget there’s a molten core...you don’t want to block anything.....

[Bonemaker]

How can we park it over NYC?

[Sacajaweau]

link at 36 goes way back in time...darwin