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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — A massive cloud of Saharan dust darkened much of Cuba on Wednesday and began to affect air quality in Florida, sparking warnings to people with respiratory illnesses to stay home. The dust cloud swept across the Atlantic from Africa over the past week, covering the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico since Sunday and hitting south Florida in the United States on Wednesday, authorities there said. Conditions over the Cuban capital Havana […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Airports on Spain’s Canary Islands were closed again Sunday after a sandstorm hit the archipelago, airport authorities said. Air travel was first disrupted on the archipelago on Saturday after strong winds carrying red sand from the Sahara shrouded the tourist hotspot, forcing flights to and from the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife to be cancelled or diverted. Some flights briefly resumed Sunday morning before Spanish airport operator AENA was […]
“On January 8, Landsat 8 captured data for these natural-color images of the snow in the Sahara,” said a release from NASA that showed this image. “For the second time in three years, snow has accumulated in the desert near the northern Algerian town of Aïn Séfra,” it said. The town is sometimes called the “gateway to the desert.” Aïn Séfra is a town of 35,000 people which sits between the Sahara and the […]
