The SAL can extend from about 5,000 to 20,000 feet in altitude and stretch across thousands of miles. It's often carried by strong easterly winds known as the African Easterly Jet, which acts like ...

African Easterly Jet: Strong winds in the Saharan Air Layer (25-55 mph or 10-25 meters per second) can substantially increase the vertical wind shear in and around the storm environment.This ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The vast plume of dust that originated over the African continent June 7 reached the Gulf Coast states Thursday, after traveling more than 5,000 miles across the Atlantic, C… ...

Dust lofted into the air by a few dust storms across Africa has made the 5,000-mile journey across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and now on Thursday into the United States.

Strong winds in the Saharan dust layer of about 25-55 mph, referred to as an “African easterly jet” by forecasters, substantially increase the vertical wind shear in and around the storm ...

Strong winds in the Saharan dust layer of about 25-55 mph, referred to as an “African easterly jet” by forecasters, substantially increase the vertical wind shear in and around the storm ...

A trans-Atlantic African dust plume formed in 2020 that traveled 5,000 miles from Africa to the US. The dust was carried by the African easterly jet North Atlantic Subtropical High Caribbean low ...

A strikingly colorful sunset may soon be coming to an evening sky near you. As a layer of Saharan dust continues its nearly 5,000-mile trek westward from off the coast of Africa, National Weather ...

Northern Africa is one of the driest regions on Earth, home to the Sahara desert, the largest hot desert in the world. This extremely dry region, where it's not uncommon to have no rain for over a ...