The dust from Africa spreads across the Atlantic during the early part of each hurricane season. Some of it has now reached Florida.

Along with Saharan dust, rain can be expected to continue in some locations, along with higher temps and a heat index in the triple digits.

June tends to be a dusty month with particles traveling thousands of miles from Africa to the Americas. Much is talked about, but not all is bad.

“We just went slow like him and followed him out,” she said. Along the way, Blanco spotted the burning wreckage from the first of two crashes linked to the dust storm. The crash left a man in critical condition. Drivers in the northbound lanes had started being turned around and led out of the blowing dirt.

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and dry windy conditions formed the rare dust storm that swept through Central Illinois on May 16.

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Hilton Head is experiencing lower air quality due to Canadian wildfire smoke. Just as that haze will leave the state, dust from the Sahara Desert will arrive and poor air quality will likely continue.

After a dry winter and spring, there's a lot of dust waiting for the first monsoon wind storm, a phenomenon known as a haboob.

Houston will have a hot and hazy end to the week as the first plume of Saharan dust this summer arrives. Here's how air quality could be affected.