Thursday, August 1, 2024

Sand from the Sahara Desert causing recent lull in the hurricane season: scientists

In June 2020, a “Godzilla” dust plume travelled from the Sahara, the planet’s largest, hottest desert, across the Atlantic ocean to North America.

Tiny grains of sand from the Sahara Desert are to blame for the almost month-long lull in this year's Atlantic hurricane season, scientists say. But it could soon come to an end.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sahara-desert-sand-causing-hurricane-season-lull-1.7280954?cmp=rss
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