NYSkiBlog Maggots in YURP 2022

[Sbob]

Sahara sand is apparently not uncommon across western Europe during the winter. Here's the previous occurrence in Feb 2021.

It travels allover and has been for ages

 

[jamesdeluxe]

It travels all over and has been for ages

@Sbob: I wasn't able to watch the clip -- the dust went eastbound around the world from the Sahara and ended up in the Bahamas?

 

[tirolski]

Spain.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1503769000408453120

 

[MarzNC]

The Aussies in Europe are also posting pics of brown/yellow sand with white tracks.

Travel Life - Europe 21/22 - Planning, General short TRs, Travel and covid

Was just coming in to comment on the above. Sand/dust rain falling in London today and the sky is orange The Pyrenees looking like Fraser Island

www.ski.com.au

"Not great here in the Arlberg either. That brown stuff is grippy. It got darker as the day went on."

 

[jamesdeluxe]

"Not great here in the Arlberg either. That brown stuff is grippy. It got darker as the day went on."

Gah, that would have been a complete ski-trip killer. Almost as bad as the dripping grease at GP!

 

[Sbob]

@Sbob: I wasn't able to watch the clip -- the dust went eastbound around the world from the Sahara and ended up in the Bahamas?

I watched a documentary years ago (can’t find it) that said it went West. That’s what popped up on YouTube first, no dialogue but it travels West on an almost regular timeline.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

I was living in Nice, France during Chernobyl. I still remember the warnings on TV and radio that the radioactive cloud was approaching and that we should, no joke, wash any fresh fruit and vegetables before eating.


Never understood how the cloud could move due west. @jasonwx, can you explain?

 

[tirolski]

German’s made a sand ski resort. Should ski faster than wet mashed potatoes.

 

[jasonwx]

I was living in Nice, France during Chernobyl. I still remember the warnings on TV and radio that the radioactive cloud was approaching and that we should, no joke, wash any fresh fruit and vegetables before eating.


Never understood how the cloud could move due west. @jasonwx, can you explain?

Upper level winds tend to be west to east.
But a cut off low in the upper air can produce easterlies. And a trough can produce upper level southerly etc
And at the surface say up to 15 k or so, wind can come from any direction

 

[Sbob]

What about hurricane season? I thought tropical waves form off the coast of Africa and travel west and then North and then start their easterly direction ?