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In the week ahead, strong winds from the Sahara Desert will pick up its mineral dust, and the jetstream will carry it more ...
The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...
Central Texas is preparing for hazy skies and rising temperatures as a Saharan dust plume arrives this weekend.
The next round of Saharan dust is likely to move toward the Texas Gulf Coast by Sunday, becoming the most concentrated early ...
Though Friday will have clear skies during the day, Cameron Batiste, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s ...
A vast plume of Sahara windborne dust -- the Saharan Air Layer -- has been sweeping westward across the Atlantic since mid ...
See where Canadian wildfire smoke and a plume of dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa will hover over the U.S. East Coast this week.
A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy ...
The plume is forecast to move northwest and reach Florida mid-week, then hit other states including Georgia, the Carolinas, Texas and Louisiana by Friday, radar shows.
A plume of thick dust suspended in the atmosphere is moving westward ... It’s difficult to make much of this and recent bouts of dusty air off the Sahara. Most seasons do have some, and it is most ...
A huge cloud of dust blown up from the Sahara Desert in Africa is expected to arrive in the U.S. late this week. The dust plume, which is about 2,000 miles wide from east to west, is forecast to ...
“It’s very impressive,” DaSilva said. Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean, in Cataño, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 2, 2025.