Saharan Dust 2024 Map. The edge of the dust plume will float over the southern coast of texas by wednesday. While these elements can be found in saharan dust, they are also found locally in houston.

Southwesterly winds kicked up massive waves of saharan dust in early june 2024, creating dusty skies not only across northern africa, but also over the atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea, and the red sea. An african air mass outbreak, bringing exceptionally high temperatures for the time of the year in central europe, transported high concentrations of saharan dust across western europe during the weekend, including at surface level, with impacts in air quality as far north as germany.