Saharan Dust Storm

bayer40601 · Post by **bayer40601** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:49 pm

Picture below of a large Saharan dust storm leaving the African coast yesterday or today:

loria · Post by **loria** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:31 pm

seestjohn had something posted about this too---eek!

bayer40601 · Post by **bayer40601** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:49 pm

Actually, the picture of the dust storm you see above was taken yesterday, so it hasn't made it to the Virgin Islands yet. Should be there late this weekend or early next week.

bevm · Post by **bevm** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:31 pm

Wow! That's crazy! Pia and Ruth, get your "dust storm attire" out of storage!!!

bayer40601 · Post by **bayer40601** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:36 pm

Sure hope benchill has his goggles ready in case he's on-island.

jmq · Post by **jmq** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:28 pm

Bayer - thats a great satt image - what is the source?

cptnkirk · Post by **cptnkirk** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:25 am

Bring on the dust if it keeps the nasty h word away

Diana2 · Post by **Diana2** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:46 am

The thing that we noticed with the Sahara Dust recently when we were there besides the obvious lower visibility was that it makes the air more dense, hot and humid. It was really terribly hot in town on those days and very very sticky.

sherban · Post by **sherban** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:42 am

There is a theory being investigated that links this dust to coral death, I had posted on the off topic forum...fyi.

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/

bayer40601 · Post by **bayer40601** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:50 am

jmq-I first received it in a Twitter message from NASA. Then I went to the nasa.gov website, copied the picture, uploaded to photobucket and then posted here.

pjayer · Post by **pjayer** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:46 pm

So, should we rent our camels on STT or STJ?

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:46 pm

...always interested in learning new stuff, I found this site after seeing the NASA image. It doesn't look so good for next week...sorry.

tomorrow's forecast:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridalin ... 684848263/" title="Picture 2 by lprof, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/368 ... 7a7a32.jpg" width="500" height="378" alt="Picture 2"></a>

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gc_wmb/dki ... t_day.html

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... 2=-64.7931

Pia · Post by **Pia** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:50 pm

Bayer - do you have the link to the photo posted first?

Thanks

Pia

bayer40601 · Post by **bayer40601** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:06 pm

Here you go Pia:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... p?id=39154

Pia · Post by **Pia** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:15 pm

Thank you so much for the link

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