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Re: African Dust - good/bad?
      Tue Mar 27 2007 11:37 PM

Dust is good and bad. Good in the sense that it can squelch tropical waves and keep storms from forming in the Atlantic. Bad in the sense that these features may develop further west, once they've escaped the throng of the dust, and more readily impact land areas. This is because the low level winds -- the ones that steer the weakest features -- are generally out of the east and east-northeast across much of the Atlantic, whereas the mid and upper level winds -- the ones that steer stronger features -- will often capture something before it gets too close to the US.

So, to answer your question...yes

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Subject Posted by Posted on
* African Dust - good/bad? madmumbler Tue Mar 27 2007 11:37 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? Clark   Tue Mar 27 2007 11:37 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? allan   Wed Mar 28 2007 02:33 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? sara33   Wed Mar 28 2007 10:48 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? Hurricane29   Thu Mar 29 2007 10:04 AM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? dem05   Tue Apr 03 2007 03:18 AM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? madmumbler   Wed Apr 04 2007 01:14 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? dem05   Fri Apr 06 2007 01:26 AM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? Clark   Fri Apr 13 2007 01:09 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? madmumbler   Fri Apr 13 2007 07:29 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? madmumbler   Fri Apr 06 2007 05:24 PM
. * * Re: African Dust - good/bad? danielwAdministrator   Thu Mar 29 2007 02:28 AM

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