A dust cloud coming from the Sahara will arrive in Mexico starting this Friday without posing a danger to the population, reported the National Water Comission (With water).
In a statement, Conagua reported that the dust cloud is expected to arrive starting today and during the weekend in Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz y Yucatan, with low to moderate concentrations, to later move towards the southeast of USA.
He pointed out that the main effects of dust from the Sahara they are sunsets and sunrises with reddish tones, due to the interaction of the sun’s rays with the dust particles.
“Likewise, when these dust clouds move across the Atlantic Ocean, they temporarily limit the development or intensification of tropical cyclones, since they are large. extensions of dry air,” he specified.
In addition, he said that according to the analyzes of models numeric and satellite images, observed by the National Meteorological Service of the National Water Commission, it is predicted that on Tuesday, June 14, “a new pulse of dust from the Sahara will arrive over the mentioned states with concentrations similar to those of these days.”
In the statement it was recalled that the dust cloud of the Sahara is released from the region of the Sahelin the Sahara desert, and it is common to develop each year during spring and summer when high temperatures and low pressures are recorded.
This generates detachments of warm air and dust that travels through the Atlantic Oceanreaches the Yucatan Peninsula and the eastern region of Mexico, and from there moves towards the southeastern United States.
rains will continue
The With water He also specified that during the weekend the rains will continue in the southern states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas, due to tropical wave number three, a low pressure zone with probability for cyclonic development and the monsoon trough.
These rains could generate an increase in the levels of rivers and streams, landslides and floods.
Afternoon showers are also expected accompanied of electrical discharges and possible hail fall on entities in the north, northeast, west, center and southeast of the country, caused by low pressure channels in interaction with divergence in height and moisture ingress.
With information from EFE