This happens when dust storms take shape over the desert and dust is then elevated. This creates the Saharan Air Layer, or SAL, which is a 2 to 2.5-mile thick layer of air about one mile above the ...

In fact, I discuss why it happens in a previous Forbes article. African dust approaching the U.S. on June 25th, 2020 NOAA and University of Wisconsin SSEC MORE FOR YOU ...

In what appears to be the latest biblical plague of 2020, a nearly 4,000-mile-long dust storm from the Sahara Desert is currently headed toward the southeastern coast of the United States.

Another week, another Saharan dust storm. If you missed out on the first round of Saharan dust that coated parts of the southern U.S. last week, you'll get another chance this week.

Movement of recent Saharan Dust Storm across the Atlantic from east to west. (NASA) The Saharan Dust cloud took about 24 days to cross the Atlantic and move into the southeast U.S.

Dust lofted into the air by a few dust storms across Africa has made the 5,000-mile journey across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and now on Thursday into the United States.

Most of the dust is staying suspended between 15-20,000+ feet in the atmosphere. It is made of dust and sand that has been lofted into the air then carried by the westerly winds across the tropics ...

That milky haze is the Saharan dust. Those tiny dust particles lofted tens of thousands of feet in the air do a great job of scattering the sun's rays at dusk and dawn, too, which gives way to ...

Dust lofted into the air by a few dust storms across Africa has made the 5,000-mile journey across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and now on Thursday into the United States.

Approximately half of the large wildfires occurring between 2003 and 2020 were followed by dust events—storms of strong winds lifting dust and sand from dry soils, according to an analysis of ...