Thu Jun 25, 2020, 01:29 AM

You ok Malaise???

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sahara-dust-caribbean/caribbean-chokes-on-monster-saharan-dust-cloud-headed-toward-the-u-s-idUSKBN23U33D

KINGSTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - A massive plume of Saharan dust has shrouded swathes of the Caribbean, turning blue skies into a milky-brown haze and sparking health warnings across the region as air quality fell to unhealthy levels.

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Jamaica’s Blue Mountains, usually a prominent sight towering over Kingston, were hidden behind an oppressive white cloud.

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You ok Malaise??? (Original post)	Laura PourMeADrink	Jun 2020	OP
malaise has mentioned the plume a few times -- it's making hurricane season milder	Hermit-The-Prog	Jun 2020	#1
We are under this haze, also. In the Dominican Republic.	secondwind	Jun 2020	#2
Who'd have thought tere would be a dust storm in Jamaica?	2naSalit	Jun 2020	#3
The dust has shut down tropical storm/hurricane formation in the Atlantic basin COMPLETELY, woo-hoo!	Baclava	Jun 2020	#4

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Thu Jun 25, 2020, 01:39 AM

Hermit-The-Prog (29,575 posts)

1. malaise has mentioned the plume a few times -- it's making hurricane season milder

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Thu Jun 25, 2020, 02:33 AM

secondwind (16,903 posts)

2. We are under this haze, also. In the Dominican Republic.

It should be gone in a few days. Even the dogs are sneezing 🤧

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Thu Jun 25, 2020, 07:24 AM

2naSalit (79,426 posts)

3. Who'd have thought tere would be a dust storm in Jamaica?

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Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:04 AM

Baclava (11,970 posts)

4. The dust has shut down tropical storm/hurricane formation in the Atlantic basin COMPLETELY, woo-hoo!

For the next couple weeks anyway, say the experts

Actually its the hot dry air that does it, but if June and July keep free of hurricanes? I'll take that silver lining!

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