Blowing dust off the coast of Namibia and South Africa

By Scott Bachmeier • 7 August 2020

VIIRS True Color RGB images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]

A sequence of 3 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 as visualized using RealEarth (above) showed plumes of blowing dust moving off the coast of Namibia and South Africa on 07 August 2020.

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Visible (0.6 µm) images (below) displayed the motion of the dust plumes during the daytime hours.

Meteosat-11 Visible (0.6 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]

A plot of surface data from Luderitz, Namibia (station identifier FYLZ) is shown below; it indicated that winds gusted to 36 knots (41 mph) at 08 UTC.

Plot of surface data from Luderitz, Namibia [click to enlarge]

H/T to Santiago Gassó for bringing this event to our attention.

#sentinel2 had a not-so-centered overpass, but some of the northern plumes seem to me like sand although there are plumes coming of the pan further inland. #highlatitudedust @sheffield_dust @jobullard https://t.co/pBaIQf2Z3v pic.twitter.com/4hwnR59CNa

— Santiago Gassó (@SanGasso) August 9, 2020

Categories: Meteosat, NOAA-20, RealEarth, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images, Suomi NPP, VIIRS

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Blowing dust off the coast of Namibia and South Africa