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BDS | Jun 1, 2025

Another Saharan dust plume starts blanketing the Caribbean

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The Saharan Air Layer (SAL), as pictured via colourised satellite imagery, straddling the open Atlantic Ocean on a path through the Caribbean on Sunday, June 1, 2025. (Photo: tropic.ssec.wisc.edu)

As the 2025 Hurricane Season officially gets underway, sections of the Eastern Caribbean have already been blanketed by another cloud of Saharan dust, bringing dry and hazy conditions for the region on Sunday (June 1).

Authorities in Trinidad and Barbados are already encouraging citizens to be aware and take necessary precautions for those sensitive to the dust plume.

“A significant concentration of Saharan dust is present in the atmosphere,” advised the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service, as it forecast “dull, hazy and breezy/windy conditions interrupted by occasional partly cloudy spells with brief light or moderate showers”.

As at 2:00 am, satellite imagery tracking the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) shows it currently interacting with a tropical wave while it stretches hundreds of kilometres across the open Atlantic Ocean from western Africa.

The dust plume is expected to begin influencing weather in the central and western Caribbean by mid-week.

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