Huge Saharan dust blob cooling eastern Atlantic

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11 Comments

  1. death_by_chocolate on

    Blob? It’s a blob? No it is not a blob. It’s a cloud. There is nothing remotely blobesque about a plume of sand. It’s dry. Sandy. Particulate. Blobs are wet. Sticky. Oozy. *Blob*. Fer cryin’ out loud.

  2. Normal-Selection1537 on

    Yay back to freezing temps, it was almost warm after six months of winter.

  3. AnthillOmbudsman on

    Funny how these media sources always use these ridiculously exaggerated images.

    What the dust plume actually looks like today is [this](https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.55790724735887,-7.27163304234022,16.904371846673214,41.82426377821978&l=Reference_Labels_15m(hidden),Reference_Features_15m(hidden),Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_NOAA20_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden)&lg=true&t=2024-04-16-T20%3A46%3A33Z).

  4. Isn’t it the Sahara that fertilises the Amazon Basin? We could do with a bit of Sahara in Scotland, had hailstones today!

  5. hurricane season always starts after the Saharan dust that comes every year. once the spring winds settle then the storms blow up.