Sahara Dust Storm Reaches Puerto Rico…
OK, so if you were here in Puerto Rico the last couple of days, you would have noticed how hazy it has been. Today was especially hazy. The reason according to the MODIS website:
A dust plume several hundred kilometers across blew off the west coast of Africa on May 9, 2007. The MODIS on the Terra satellite took this picture the same day.
This image shows the dust plume fanning out approximately 500 kilometers west of the coast. The plume is thickest in the south, near Cape Verde, although a thin arm of dust stretches out toward the Canary Islands in the north. The thickest part of the plume is tan in color, while the thinnest portion appears ghostly gray. Over land, the dust is not thick enough to block the satellite’s view of the land surface. A dust storm this large can track across the Atlantic Ocean and be carried by the trade winds bound for Central and North America and the Caribbean.
It takes about 5-7 days to reach Puerto Rico. So the timimg is about right for this haze to be caused by the Sahara dust storm. Hopefully it will pass soon, so that we can get to see the sun without the haze
Source: MODIS
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Excellent article. If the dust so distant can affect the climatic conditions, just to mention one element of the so many implications it entails,on the Island of Puerto Rico, my native land,I just wonder about the short/long term effects, the toxic dust released by the implosion of the Twin Towers in New York have had on us who reside here, and at a distance!