
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/.