[in hoc signo vinces]

I guess it will have to fight the dust cloud called the "DNC", which is already over the U.S., for room.

[Prime Choice]

And not one satellite picture? Bah...

[SwankyC]

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[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

I'm confused. Would not the prevailing westerlies place the Sahara downwind from Florida?

[kenth]

I'm just waiting for the plague of locusts to hit 'em.

[No Blue States]

"It might turn the skies milkier and leave a light coating of reddish-brown dust on cars, the result of a small amount of iron. It also could make the sunrise and sunset spectacular"

Free fertilizer and pretty sunsets. Beats a hurricane any day.

[cll]

This happens every year at the end of the dry season in Africa. The dust is blown across the Atlantic by the tradewinds and they usually blow over the Caribbean, where we get hazy conditions most of the time from late May through August. This is the first time I hear that the dust clouds make it all the way to the mainland.

My recommendations to Floridians:

1. These dust clouds carry allergens that most people on this side of the Atlantic are not used to. Be ready, specially asthma patients, in case the cloud is thick enough to cause trouble.

2. The dust clouds precede the rainy season in West Africa. The start of the rainy season is the beginning of the Cape Verde Hurricane season, when we start getting the train of tropical waves rolling out of Africa and into the warm Atlantic, where the most dangerous hurricanes originate.

[darkwing104]

Whoo Hoo! More beach sand!

[spycatcher]

[Frank_2001]

Good article!