A giant Saharan dust cloud is headed to Houston this weekend. Here’s a timeline for Texas.

A massive cloud of Saharan dust is heading to Texas, after crossing the entire Atlantic Basin from the Cape Verde Islands off of the coast of Senegal in West Africa, all the way to the eastern Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba.

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Within this plume, the highest concentration of dust particles that’s nearest to Texas is over the Caribbean Sea. Because trade winds are moving from the east-southeast, this wind direction is expected to push the dust cloud straight into the Gulf of Mexico and eventually into Texas…

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