Massive cloud of Saharan dust darkens much of Cuba while also affecting air quality in Florida
A woman meditates as a vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 22, 2020.
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. Francisco Duran, head of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Health, said the cloud is likely to "increase respiratory and allergic conditions".Air quality in Miami is currently "moderate" the city's health department said, asking people with respiratory problems to stay home.
But the density of the current dust cloud over Cuba "is well above normal levels," said Cuban meteorologist Jose Rubiera.In Havana, scientist Eugenio Mojena said the phenomenon "causes an appreciable deterioration in air quality."Mojena listed "minerals such as iron, calcium, phosphorous, silicon and mercury" in the dust, and said the clouds also carried "viruses, bacteria, fungi, pathogenic mites, staphylococci and organic pollutants.
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