Posts Tagged ‘dust crossing the Atlantic’

Africa Slowly Blows Away

Posted on March 8th, 2008 by by admin

A dust storm bigger than Spain raged over the Atlantic a thousand miles 0ff West Africa last February 26. NASA satellite captured the event (right). Since the early 1970s more and more such storms have been spawned by drought in the Sahel region south of the Sahara. Satellites have recorded many of these African [...]