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 ...

Peak hurricane season is here and wave after wave continues to roll off the African continent, courtesy of the African Easterly Jet and African Monsoon Season. You can see two orange x's on the ...

Every hurricane season, about 100 low-pressure weather disturbances whirl westward out of West Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean, but less than one-fifth of them become tropical depressions ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is called the African Easterly Jet (AEJ). We're still awaiting the arrival of the first main plume of dust from Africa, as it traverses the Atlantic to our east.

The Earth's atmosphere also has smaller, less consistent jet streams, such as the equatorial jet stream and the African ...

The African Easterly Jet, which usually has strong winds that help transport the dust westwards, was relatively weak this June, letting more amount of dust accumulate.