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Old March 21st 10, 04:19 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Bernard Burton Bernard Burton is offline
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Default Sahara duststorms

For the past couple of days there has been a very extensive and thick
duststorm over a large part of the Sahara. On visible imagery the dust can
be seen spreading in a vast plume out over the Atlantic and southwards over
the Gulf of Guinea.
These images (infra red difference between spectral channels 4 and 5) from
today's noaa19 overpass show the extent of the dust (the white areas on the
images)
http://www.woksat.info/etcsc21/sc21-1221-j-apt-s.html
http://www.woksat.info/etcsc21/sc21-1401-e-apt-s.html



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