Folks on the West coast of North America...that dust may be coming
your way in the next week or so. Monitor the areal extent of the
"haziness" on the GMS visible channel, indicating the thickest
portion of the airborne dust cloud:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/gms/
(click on "Higher/Large" Image Quality...and "Visible"...and then
"8 Image Animation") -- the hazy "blob" is pretty evident at
23:02 UTC on 20 March, and also at 05:02 UTC on 21 March, over
the Korean peninsula and adjacent waters.
One such Asian dust event crossed the entire Pacific Ocean back in
April 1998:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/980424.html
Olli Haukkovaara wrote:
>
> At 16:51 22.3.2002, Jesse wrote:
>
> >A thick storm of choking dust turned Beijing's skies an apocalyptic
> >yellow Wednesday,
>
> On last friday, i.e. a week ago, there was a same kind of dust storm
> in Vladivostok, Russia. During last 130 years, when weather data
> has been collected in that area, there has never been such a storm.
> The sky turned to yellow and the sun was BLUE !!
>
> According to local meteorologists, the sand came from the
> deserts of northern China and Mongolia.
>
--
Scott Bachmeier University of Wisconsin - Madison / SSEC / CIMSS
mailto:scottb{at}ssec.wisc.edu | http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~scottb
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