Warnings Issued as Unusually Thick Cloud of Saharan Dust Approaches The US

Science Alert  June 25, 2020
The dust cloud swept across the Atlantic from Africa over the past week, covering the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico since Sunday and hitting south Florida on Wednesday. Powered by strong winds, dust from the Sahara travels across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa during the boreal spring. But the density of the current dust cloud over Cuba is well above normal levels. The dust clouds are loaded with minerals such as iron, calcium, phosphorous, silicon and mercury, and viruses, bacteria, fungi, pathogenic mites, staphylococci and organic pollutants…read more.

Credit: NASA Global Modelling and Assimilation Office

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