a great cloud of dust from the Sahara desert, which has reached the Caribbean, passing over the Eastern provinces of Cuba, laid the capital of the Island of Freedom.
Havana is Usually Sunny, with bright blue colors of sky and sea, looks unusually pale. Only still shining Golden dome of the main dominants of the capital – Capitol, breaking through the visible to the naked eye mist.
the Cuban meteorologists have already stated that such a concentration of dust of African deserts was not over the past 50-60 years. Evidence of the scale of the cloud are his pictures from space, published by the head of the Center forecasts the Cuban Institute of meteorology Miriam Llanes.
a Cloud covered a distance of 3,200 km from the Western coast of Africa to the lesser Antilles in just five days – from 13 to 18 June. And since the series covers different countries in the Caribbean. It is expected that further it will continue to move West across the Gulf of Mexico and spread Mexico and the South-Eastern part of the United States.
According to scientists, these clouds occur due to sand storms in the Sahara and then can rise to a height of from three to seven kilometres. Driven by air currents, they cross the Atlantic ocean and is served in the Caribbean.
although air quality while achieving a dust cloud markedly worse, they contribute to the fact that traditional for this time of year tropical storms for the time of retreat: dust prevents the formation of hurricane season, which starts in the Caribbean on 1 June.
Imagen de #satélite 23 de junio de 2020. Se aprecia muy bien el #polvodelSahara en la mitad oriental de #Cuba. pic.twitter.com/K0LQ9HNY2s
