Get ready for the Saharan dust next week - 2020 keeps on giving...

[batoncolle]

"A massive plume of dust from the Sahara desert in northern Africa has been traversing the atmosphere, thousands of feet above the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and is now cloaking the Caribbean and closing in on the southeastern United States.

While summer dust plumes are a common occurrence, this appears to be one of the most extreme in recent memory. It's so large it has been nicknamed the Gorilla Dust Cloud.

The latest NASA model projecting the path of the dust has it heading into the deep South from the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. The next round will hit Texas on Thursday through Saturday, and then hook back eastward over the Southeast and Tennessee Valley area."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saharan-dust-gorilla-cloud-nearing-united-states/

 

[Rolling_trip]

Dang, I was expecting Wormwood......

 

[hamburglar3]

good thing we are all wearing masks lol

i wonder if we will get hailstorms out of this

 

[HERMET]

good thing we are all wearing masks lol

i wonder if we will get hailstorms out of this

...and a plague of locusts.

 

[gizzard]

Satellite imagery in a loop.
Takes 20 seconds or so to load.

https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate...r&sec=full_disk&p[0]=geocolor&x=10848&y=10848

 

[THREEJAYS]

Sure makes me wonder, we still got six months left in the year

 

[lokidogg]

Sure makes me wonder, we still got six months left in the year

How many till November. That’s the end of us all

 

[THREEJAYS]

How many till November. That’s the end of us all

Bye everybody, just in case I forget

 

[CBH13]

good thing we are all wearing masks lol

i wonder if we will get hailstorms out of this

**** had one of those last week on 316

 

[Sowega86]

good thing we are all wearing masks lol

i wonder if we will get hailstorms out of this

Fortunately, SW Georgia has been getting lots of rain this week which acts like a vertical scrubber to catch the dust in the falling droplets. It's overcast right now. But the regular summer cycle usually includes afternoon and evening thunderstorms that originate from the Gulf.