The first big surge of Saharan dust from Africa has been sweeping through the Atlantic and Caribbean the past few days and has now spread into Florida. Here's what you need to know about this dust: In ...

Saharan dust has begun to sweep throughout Florida, leaving behind hazy sunrises and sunsets. The dust plume is about 2,000 miles wide from west to east and 750 miles long from north to south, wrote ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A burst of Saharan dust moving across the Atlantic recently made headlines as it tracked closer to parts of the U.S. coastline. I caught up with Dr. Paul Miller from the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A massive plume of dust is drifting across the Atlantic and heading for Florida. This has the benefit of causing gorgeous sunsets and tamping down tropical development, but it ...

A massive cloud of Saharan dust is heading to Texas, after crossing the entire Atlantic Basin from the Cape Verde Islands off of the coast of Senegal in West Africa, all the way to the eastern ...

The first large plume of Saharan dust is set to arrive in Florida. These tiny particles travel thousands of miles through the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), which is located between half and 3.5 miles from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WGHP) – A plume of dust from the Sahara ...

Saharan dust Thick plume of Saharan dust blowing from the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic as captured on May 7, 2025, from the European Space Agency’s low-earth orbiting Sentinel-3 satellite.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The densest cloud of Saharan dust we’ve seen in decades has made its way to the Gulf of Mexico after a 5,000-mile trek across the Atlantic Ocean. But with the arrival of the dust, ...

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Saharan dust plumes heaved through the Atlantic from the deserts of North Africa each summer – providing rich nutrients for the soils of the Amazon while helping to curb early season hurricane ...

The WXII 12 First Warning Weather Team is tracking a large plume of Saharan dust that has traveled across the Atlantic Ocean.WHAT IS THE SAHARAN AIR LAYER?The Saharan Air Layer, more commonly known as ...