Another case of blowing dust was noted across the southern Texas panhandle region on 01 March 2007. Unlike the stronger blowing dust event in that same area 5 days earlier (on 24 February), there was no distinct dust cloud feature evident on... Read More

Strong winds gusting to 60-70 mph in the wake of a cold frontal passage on 24 February 2007 caused widespread blowing dust and wildfire activity across much of the Texas panhandle region. GOES-12 visible channel imagery (above; Read More

January normally isn’t the time of year for large-scale blowing dust events over the Sahara Desert region of northern Africa, but Meteosat-8 false color imagery (above; Java animation) did show a small plume of blowing dust in northern Chad on 18 January 2007. These... Read More

A QuickTime animation of GOES-11 visible channel images (above) revealed multiple plumes of glacial sediment blowing offshore along the coast of Alaska on 06 November 2006. Strong chinook winds in the glacial valleys were lofting dust and carrying it out over the adjacent Gulf of Alaska. This phenomenon had... Read More