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The jet, a swift-moving ribbon of winds, creates undulations in the air also known as African easterly waves, which are the seeds for hurricanes. More: Hurricane season: NOAA makes highest storm ...

An estimated 85% of the most intense hurricanes – the Category 3's, 4's and 5's, with winds of 111 mph or more – get their start in the tropical waves that move off the African coast, he said.

The Harmattan wind sends the dust into the African Easterly Jet that blows from the West Coast of Africa to the United States and carries the dust thousands of miles across the ocean.

A localized areas of higher winds speeds blowing eastward, known as the African Easterly Jet or African Easterly Waves, help fuel the formation of these storms and pushes them off towards the west.

The tropical waves get carried by the African Easterly jet out over the Atlantic. (WVUE Fox 8) Like a train, tropical waves move one after the other out into the Atlantic.

Flooded desert landscape in Morocco, September 2024. TAGHLAOUIFOTOS / shutterstock Smaller “waves” can spin off from this jet. We call them African easterly waves, since they originate in the east and ...

African easterly jet: Strong winds in the Saharan Air Layer (25-55 mph) can increase the vertical wind shear in and around the storm environment.

The Harmattan wind sends the dust into the African Easterly Jet that blows from the West Coast of Africa to the United States and carries the dust thousands of miles across the ocean.