Minerals blown off the Sahara fuel the microbes that undergird the Bahaman ecosystem
Dust from the Sahara also fertilizes the Amazon rain forest.
Next week’s NYT headline: Trump steals life-giving soil from poor Africans and gives it to his loyal supporters in Southern US.
Also helps reduce the Hurricane threat.
Could possibly trigger severe flooding across the SE US...................
Every year during this time of year there is a ‘cloud’ which seems to hang in the air to the Southwest of Houston. I had always assumed that it came from the Mexican desert. I learned something new today! ;-)
Even dust wants to come to America.
Global Dusting Change.
We are goners.
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The dust storms from Africa also fertilize the Atlantic Ocean and the soil of the New World. There should be good fishing in the Atlantic this year.
“Dust” or “fine sand” do not “nurture” anything.
Nice to know it may reduce hurricane strength/probability.
Probably not. The ECMWF model forecasts heavy rain Wednesay and Thursday.
I suppose the various nations of the Sahara will now make a claim on parts of the US as “It is part of OUR LAND!”
I am surprised that Arizona has not made a claim on the western half on New Mexico as it is really Arizona dust!
As Pliny the Elder said, “There’s always something new out of Africa.”
Is this like the Korean flame throwing squirrels? Or the murder hornets? Or the blood sucking monkeys from West Mifflin, PA?
Sunrise ... Sunset
Living on the Gulf I enjoy both