Posted on 05/18/2022 6:17:27 PM PDT by blam
A massive plume of dust referred to as a Saharan Air Layer (SAL) could reach U.S. Gulf Coast states this weekend, according to AccuWeather.
On Tuesday, weather models show SAL traversing the Atlantic. The expectation is this enormous plume of dust will sweep across the Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of this week, reaching the U.S. Gulf Coast by Saturday.
“A large batch of dust was evident on satellite photos from the start of this week and was beginning to enter the Caribbean.
“It is possible, but not a certainty, that this dust will make the trip as far as the Gulf and south-central U.S. late this week or this weekend,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
This is the trans-Atlantic SAL of the year and could bring hazy skies and extra color to sunrises and sunsets for parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
The first Saharan dust plume of the season rolling off Africa will reach the U.S. by this weekend
Meteorologist @StephenMorganTV explains what it means.
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— FOX Weather (@foxweather) May 17, 2022
“While NASA’s dust forecast model shows some dust in the skies over the western Gulf coast from Louisiana to Texas on Sunday, the Copernicus satellite model says the dust will dissipate before it reaches the United States, except for southern Florida,” AccuWeather Senior Weather Editor Jesse Ferrell said.
If the SAL does reach the U.S. this weekend, it may also bring health hazards, such as a surge in air pollution and agitating health issues for those with respiratory issues.
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Something you didn't know about this dust:
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rain drops coalesce around dust
gonna be a lot of rain in Southern US
Ooh, ooh, all the flooding is DJTrump’s fault!
“Massive Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic, Headed For US By Weekend”
Knowing CNN, they’ll claim that it was Russian nukes going off in Ukraine stirring up the dust.
Glorious sunsets thanks to Africa?
Wondering if this is dense enough to affect jet engines.
Best sunsets were years ago when dust from Gobi Desert hit the West Coast.
I live in Fort Walton Beach, FL, and last year the same thing happened. It was pretty hazy and the sunset looked strange for a day but otherwise no big deal.
Maybe so, the volcano in Tonga put off enough ash to make our sunset pink and orange.
Someone posted here this past spring about a Saharan dust storm that hit Italy, southern France and Spain.
Yes. I used to live in Melbourne and we'd get this orange dust on things quite often.
Expect respiratory problem after it gets here.
Full mask mode and lockdown incoming
With that much dust blocking out the sunlight we might stave off the upcoming global warming catastrophe by 30 or 40 seconds!
sarc/
Creates dirty rains. People will need a car wash after it passes.
Yep. They’ll claim it’s a new variant of the Covid.
Win/Win: produces gorgeous sunsets, and inhibits tropical storm development.
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