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This was the only part of the post that I wasn’t relating to.

I’m just coming back from a trip to the Caribbean where during my trip the sky was hazy for some days and all of the locals were claiming the weather effect to be the Sahara dust.

I’m not a local so I don’t know if it is more or less than usual, but my personal experience makes me take issue with the “never come” part.



The eastern islands of the Caribbean are currently getting hit with smoke from Canadian wildfires: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/smoke-maps-canad.... Smoke is covering everything from Puerto Rico to Barbados.


This was about 3 weeks ago, prior to the wildfires.


It's super important to not rely on individual data points when talking about year-long trends.

Whatever the effect of the Saharan dust, it's not going to be all manifested in "some days".

Just as in years of overall climate warning there can still be record cold streaks too.




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