This is a large plume of Saharan Dust that has spread across the Atlantic Ocean from Northern Africa. How does it happen? It starts out when thunderstorms over Africa put out strong downdrafts ...

A heavy plume of Saharan dust has already traveled about 5,000 miles through the atmosphere, from the Sahara Desert in ...

Weak low pressure in the Mediterranean set up southerly winds from Saharan Africa across the Mediterranean into Europe, drawing dust into Italy and southern France. High-pressure ridging from the ...

But one unreported aspect of the Saharan dust is that it could be radioactive ... fallout from the tests at Reggane in central Algeria stretched across all of west Africa, across the Mediterranean and ...

Cars and pavements in the West Midlands have been found coated with a layer of dust from the Sahara desert ... the air has come all the way from north Africa. "In the last few days, instead ...

Red sun 'caused by Hurricane Ophelia' More stories from the East Midlands "The particles themselves contain sand grains [quartz], clays and feldspars - all of which are expected in Saharan dust." ...