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NASA Earth Observatory (2012, March 8) Dust over the Canary Islands.NASA Earth Observatory (2016, July 14) Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa.NASA Earth Observatory (2018, June 15) Waves of Dust Over the Red Sea.NASA Earth Observatory (2020, February 25) Dust Blankets the Canary Islands.NASA Earth Observatory (2020, July 1) A Dust Plume to Remember. Since the start of the year, a total of 11,522 migrants have managed to cross the notoriously dangerous Atlantic route to Spains Canary Islands, a figure slightly higher than the same period last.CIMSS Satellite Blog (2022, January 18) Three days of Saharan Dust.Canary Islands (2020, July 10) Canary Islands Calima - Saharan dust over the Canary Islands.Canary Islands (2022, January 14) Calima and strong winds alert in the Canary Islands this weekend.Canary Islands (2022, January 15) Intense calima of historic proportions affects the Canary Islands at the moment.AEMET (2022, January 19) Avisos meteorológicos.“Note that the shape of the wave train matches with the west African coastline rather well, with some distortion of course due to different wind speeds at different latitudes,” said Tianle Yuan, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland Baltimore County. In this case, the air mass coming off the west African continent was disturbed by the lower-altitude air mass near the sea surface. Such waves can be caused by the rise and fall of an air mass that has been disturbed. The dust is likely organizing along otherwise invisible waves in the atmosphere.

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Notice that the dust has organized into a series of linear bands close to the archipelago’s eastern islands. But when viewed from space, interesting patterns emerge. The storm was not much more than a hazy orange nuisance to people on the ground. Wind gusts reached 70 kilometers (40 miles) per hour.

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The Ministry of Heath advised people, especially those with respiratory issues, to stay inside with doors and windows closed. With the arrival of the dust, visibility dropped to 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) at the airport on Gran Canaria and 1.8 kilometers (1.2 miles) on Fuerteventura and Tenerife South, according to local news reports. Later that evening, the warning was extended to Gran Canaria and Tenerife. At the time, Spain’s meteorological agency (AEMET) had issued a warning to the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura for high winds and suspended dust. The islands of the eternal spring, the archipelago Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean, form a part of Spain, although they are more closely situated. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite acquired an image (above) around 1:45 p.m. Such events, known to islanders as “la calima,” generally happen around this time of year as strong seasonal winds carry sand and dust away from the Sahara. In mid-January 2022, dust from northwest Africa washed over the Canary Islands, causing skies to turn orange, visibility to drop, and air quality to decline.