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Also having large waves of Saharan dust which is too dry and inhibits hurricane development.

• abakker 4d ago
  Where does this dust end up? Into the oceans? Because iron-rich dust entering the oceans helps create nutrition for algae which can absorb CO2
  • joecool1029 4d ago
    Believe it or not at least 40 million tons of it ends up in the Amazon basin each year where it does have an effect on the plants there: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014005 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014... It goes elsewhere too, as expected.
    • consp 4d ago
      N/Nw Europe also has sand rains. Not seen it this year yet though.
    • consumer451 3d ago
      In South Florida you can sometimes get Sahara dust on your car after a rain.