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Sahara Dust?

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    Sponge Bob
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    Light brown/red dust after a southerly is a real Sahara fingerprint.


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    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Also noticed my car appeared very dusty/sandy in the sun this morning, and it was only washed the weekend before last.


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    tphase
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    ttc028 wrote: »
    Is there any chance that this caused by Saharan dust?
    I notice that NASA are showing a dust storm off west Africa on the 16th.
    http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=WestAfrica.A2012076.1425.1km.jpg

    could well be Saharan but not from that dust storm - trajectory forecasts indicate the source region is around Libya.


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    ednwireland
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    nah just dust ;)

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    Danno
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    ttc028 wrote: »
    http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=WestAfrica.A2012076.1425.1km.jpg

    Spot the smiley face!


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    Wild Bill
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    This happened many times in the 1980s - but hardly at all in the past 20 years.

    Odd.


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    CajunOnTour
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    Wild Bill wrote: »

    Odd.

    Isn't it?


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    vibe666
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    i used to live in tenerife and it happened all the time, everything was always caked in the stuff. :(


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    Pangea
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    Its not that rare, it happened a few times over the past few years.
    Noticed the car all sand dust today alright.


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    Wild Bill
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    Pangea wrote: »
    Its not that rare, it happened a few times over the past few years.
    Noticed the car all sand dust today alright.

    Nothing here in years!

    How does it make it to Donegal and avoid the Pearl of the East Coast (aka Dublin :))?


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    tphase
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    tropical air is advected to Ireland fairly frequently and probably will have had Saharan dust entrained in it at some stage. Usually by the time it gets to us, the dust will already have been rained out. If the airmass comes in from the west or southwest, any remaining dust is more likely to be rained out on the west coast since it gets higher rainfall than the east coast.


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    Pangea
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Nothing here in years!

    How does it make it to Donegal and avoid the Pearl of the East Coast (aka Dublin :))?

    Maybe you are just not as sharp as you used to be :P
    or maybe it did make it to Donegal and not Dublin ;)

    Heres one recent example.
    snowstreams wrote: »
    It doesnt seem to have effected an area east of the line from say central dublin up to Derry.
    Every car has a good bit of brown dirt on it here in Galway city. I dont think any fresh dust fell last night though.


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71655669


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    Pangea
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    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=40325

    Looks like this is what came to us alright.


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    tphase
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    Pangea wrote: »
    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=40325

    Looks like this is what came to us alright.
    we got nothing from that dust storm on the 24th, the source region was Libya according to the trajectory forecast


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    Nabber
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    My car is too dirty to notice any Saharan dust/sand on it.

    Does it cause the same problems as ash with regards to planes?


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    Pangea
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    tphase wrote: »
    we got nothing from that dust storm on the 24th, the source region was Libya according to the trajectory forecast

    Tks, do you have a link to that forecast or any images of the sand over ireland?


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    tphase
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    391174_trj001.gif

    Tunisian dust, forecast run was a wee bit off.....


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    irelandspurs
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    Car is covered in dust in laois,washed the car every couple of days but giving up now.


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    Wild Bill
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    irelandspurs wrote: »
    Car is covered in dust in laois,washed the car every couple of days but giving up now.

    Laois? I know...but this thread is about Sahara dust :cool:


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    Deep Easterly
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Laois? I know...but this thread is about Sahara dust :cool:

    I suppose Laois could be described as Ireland's own little Sahara desert though as it seems to one of the driest counties in the country.


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    irelandspurs
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    I suppose Laois could be described as Ireland's own little Sahara desert though as it seems to one of the driest counties in the country.

    We even have a man made beach where we live.:)


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