PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The new hurricane season in Florida has been quiet so far in 2022, with the tropics seemingly sleeping at the moment.
Forecasters are predicting no tropical development for the next 10 days and that may be attributed to a phenomenon known as Saharan Dust.
It is a large plume of Saharan dust that travels across the Atlantic Ocean with Florida and the Gulf of Mexico as its target.
Experts say that Saharan dust is unusually dense and limits the chance for tropical storm development, Dr William Landing an emeritus professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University told The Epoch Times….