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DALLAS — This week North Texas will experience a phenomenon from across the Atlantic: a plume of Saharan dust. It'll likely arrive Wednesday and it is expected to linger through Thursday.
The state of Texas is bracing for a Saharan dust outbreak, as large plumes travel northward from the African desert and move over the Atlantic. The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is the dust that...
Some 100 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert blow out over the Atlantic Ocean each year — enough to be visible in satellite photos. A plume is expected to reach Texas this week.
DFW Weather: Saharan Dust is coming back to North Texas. Here's when and what to expect Saharan Dust travels across the Atlantic during late spring, summer and early autumn.
According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the latest plume of Saharan dust is moving over Central Texas on Wednesday. The dust can create beautiful sunsets, but it also causes problems for people with respiratory conditions.
While air quality concerns are in effect as a large Sahara Dust plume travels across Texas this weekend, the dust also helps to calm tropical disturbances.
In Texas, those upper-level winds will be swift enough to carry Saharan dust across much of the state, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Dust blown all the way from Africa’s Sahara Desert is arriving this week in Texas, which happens every year around this time. Around 6,000 years ago, North Africa was covered in huge lakes that were home to microscopic creatures.
The answer: Saharan dust. Like clockwork, from June through August, high winds over northwest Africa pick up substantial amounts of dust from the Sahara Desert and carry it westward more than...
Saharan dust has drifted across the Atlantic Ocean to Texas where it is creating stunning sunsets but also potentially harmful air quality.