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LOCAL Tuesday 3 May 2022

The Saharan Air Layer will be present on the Island for another day

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Oranjestad - Aruba Weather Watch previously issued a
forecast in which it informed that visibility would be re-
duced to the presence of fine dust from the Sahara Desert.

The Saharan dust cloud, as its name suggests, comes
from the Sahara desert. When the general direction of
the wind in the upper part of our atmosphere is blowing
the southern part of the southwest towards the northern
part of the northeast, the dust particles can e carried far
onto other parts, even into parts of the European con-
tinent. Often Originating from the Algerian deserts, the
dust particles are sometimes brought even further into
eastern, western, northern Europe as well.

This phenomenon forms what’s known as The Saharan Air
Layer, which is a mass of very dry air, filled with the desert
dust that formed over the Sahara Desert, which usually
happens during late spring, summer and early autumn.
It will move over every three to five days, with sometimes
the event reaching very high volumes of dust and reach-
ing further and further.

According to the forecast previously published, the pres-
ence of this fine dust would reduce the visibility on the Is-
land. A new forecast has now informed that the Saharan
air layer will stay for another day on the Island. Radar im-
ages have shown that there will be a decrease by Tues-
day and by Wednesday morning there will be a clearer
sky.q