madmumbler
(Storm Tracker)
Tue Mar 27 2007 05:42 PM
African Dust - good/bad?

Someone please refresh my memory -- is African dust good or bad for us in terms of storms? I was thinking lots of dust was good for us in the states in terms of keeping storm development lower?

I saw on the ATWD that there's an area of dust reaching 50W.


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