Saharan Dust Cloud 2024. A massive dust plume is crossing europe, deteriorating air quality in many areas, warns the european climate monitor. Parts of europe were clouded on saturday by an exceptionally rare haze of dust swept up from the sahara desert.

Saharan dust, transported across the atlantic ocean by trade winds, is the predominant aerosol type during summer and early fall over the tropical atlantic (17). Giant plumes of sahara desert dust that gust across the atlantic can suppress hurricane formation over the ocean and affect weather in north america.