Dust clouds from the Sahara desert in North Africa have blown across the Mediterranean Sea and turned Greece’s sky orange on Tuesday. Historic landmarks in the country’s capital Athens ...

U.S. forecasters are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and 6 to 10 of ...

Winds pick up an estimated 100 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert each year ... and can also promote or reduce cloud and storm formation, depending on other atmospheric conditions.

Sandstorms are most likely to pick up in areas where there is little vegetation, which could interact with the wind and slow a storm down. Dust storms occur regularly in the Sahara Desert. But in ...

"The Saharan Air Layer is a mass of very dry, dusty air that forms over the Sahara Desert during ... Administration. Dust covers a residential area during a dust storm in Lubbock, Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s that time of year again when dust from the Saharan Desert makes its way into ... Africa to the U.S. Just the size of the Sahara is impressive – 3.6 million square ...

The dust over Puerto Rico represented the leading edge of a giant plume that had traveled more than 5,000 miles from the Sahara desert across ... So if a developing storm that’s growing upward ...

Giant plumes of Sahara Desert dust that gust across the Atlantic can ... solar radiation and cool sea surface temperatures around a storm's core, which weakens the tropical cyclone.

Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical ... before the storm. With this combination of visible and infrared ...