"Bruco" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:29:02 -0000, "Bernard Burton"
wrote:

Image from this afternoon's NOAA18 pass over the Sahara shows a massive
dust
storm around a low pressure over Algeria. The image is from the IR
channel 4
sensor.
http://www.woksat.info/etcpb21/pb21-1301-i-sah.html


Does this mean my car will be covered in orange dust by the middle of
next week? :-)

No, not according to this Athens University model
http://forecast.uoa.gr/LINKS/DUST/dload/anim.html

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html
or
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html