It can be kryptonite for hurricanes. The Saharan Air Layer (SAL)—a mass of dry, hot, and dust-laden air that forms over the Sahara Desert during the ...

U.S. forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic ...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a potential tropical development that’s just off Florida’s southeastern coast.

Hilton Head is experiencing lower air quality due to Canadian wildfire smoke. Just as that haze will leave the state, dust ...

The African dust approaching the United States this week raises many questions. A meteorologist explains what you need to ...

Dust carried across the Atlantic is one of the great wonders of the weather world. This is the most significant cloud so far ...

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

▪ Saharan dust is an extremely dry, dusty air mass, containing about 50% less moisture than the typical tropical atmosphere, ...

How acute those become could be determined by the smoke’s elevation in the atmosphere. At lower levels it can not only cause ...

The first, smaller plume will reach South Florida on Saturday. The second will engulf the state starting on June 4.

These dust plumes tend to suppress hurricanes by drying out the atmosphere ... forecasts but becomes important during the season are African easterly waves. These “waves” are clusters ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its predictions for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season on Thursday, May 22, and if you live along the coast or anywhere hurricanes ...