Dust Plume Blowing West from Sahara into Atlantic Ocean
June 10, 2020

Talk about dust in the wind! This plume blowing west over the Atlantic Ocean 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?
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/.
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