The first big surge of Saharan dust from Africa has been sweeping through the Atlantic and Caribbean the past few days and has now spread into Florida. Here's what you need to know about this dust: In ...

A massive plume of Saharan dust about 2,000 miles wide from west to east is headed for Florida. The dust is expected to reach the Gulf Coast, including Fort Myers, Cape Coral and Lee County, as early ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A massive plume of dust is drifting across the Atlantic and heading for Florida. This has the benefit of causing gorgeous sunsets and tamping down tropical development, but it ...

It's that time of year when thick clouds of Saharan dust can traverse across the Atlantic and into the Caribbean. And when conditions are right, weather patterns will send that dust towards the Gulf ...

That's not Saharan dust in the sky, the main culprit is likely the 2,000-acre prescribed burn near Hurlburt Field. Santa Rosa County Emergency Management posted about 1:30 p.m. after getting questions ...

The first large plume of Saharan dust is set to arrive in Florida. These tiny particles travel thousands of miles through the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), which is located between half and 3.5 miles from ...

A massive cloud of Saharan dust is heading to Texas, after crossing the entire Atlantic Basin from the Cape Verde Islands off of the coast of Senegal in West Africa, all the way to the eastern ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WGHP) – A plume of dust from the Sahara ...

Saharan dust Thick plume of Saharan dust blowing from the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic as captured on May 7, 2025, from the European Space Agency’s low-earth orbiting Sentinel-3 satellite.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Saharan dust, also called the Saharan Air Layer, has made the 5,000-mile journey from Africa all the way to Florida. This was apparent Friday morning with various camera shots ...

A large plume of dust from the Saharan Desert is expected to drift across a good chunk of parts of the southeastern U.S. by the end of the week, forecasters say. According to AccuWeather, the Saharan ...

The dust may cause itchy eyes and throat for people sensitive to those symptoms. The skies over the East Coast and South are going to be a bit dusty this weekend. A massive dust plume from the Sahara ...