Saharan dust may have you wheezing

[TexasStooge]

By SCOTT STREATER / Special to the Star-Telegram

If you’re coughing and sneezing more than usual this week, you can blame it on the Sahara Desert.

An enormous cloud of Saharan dust stretching from the African coast to the Gulf of Mexico will begin moving through the Dallas-Fort Worth area today and could blanket much of North Texas off and on through next week, said Bryan Lambeth, senior meteorologist at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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Well, that answers my coughing and sneezing problem.

[srainhoutx]

Not only in North TX...

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
852 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

.DISCUSSION...
HAZY DAY IN STORE FOR THE REGION AS HAZE FROM WEST AFRICA CONTINUES
TO ENVELOP THE REGION. SEABREEZE SHOWERS ARE AGAIN
POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES TODAY. WILL MAKE SOME
ADJUSTMENTS TO CLOUD COVER..BUT THE REMAINING FORECAST LOOKS GOOD.

[PhillyWX]

I thought this would be appropriate given that I passed through the SAL while in the Caribbean two weeks back. This was from two Sundays ago in St. Thomas at sunset. It was much hazier in Puerto Rico though the day prior but I was too busy partaking in the San Juan bar scene to notice...