Dust Plume Blowing West from Sahara into Atlantic Ocean

June 12, 2020

June 10, 2020

Large brown dust plume mixed with white clouds is seen over Western Africa and extending over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Talk about dust in the wind! This plume blowing west over the Atlantic from the Sahara desert was captured on June 7, 2020 by the NOAA-20 satellite.Did you know this dust can help suppress hurricane development? We'll have to see what happens this year... http://bit.ly/3cN9lEP

For more information about this phenomenon, which is known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), please visit: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/saharan-air-layer/.