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[–] Itsyaboimuf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Typically, airborne dust from the Sahara helps to cool this region by blocking and reflecting some of the sun’s energy; but weaker than average winds have reduced the extent of dust in the region’s atmosphere potentially leading to higher temperatures,” said professor Albert Klein Tank of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre in the Met Office blog.”

It’s interesting how different environmental factors compound on to each other

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's all connected and why the planet is so intriguing to study from the macro scale to the molecular level and everything in between!

[–] maddogx2@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

All the dust settled on people's cars, mine is covered in it.

[–] sinkingship@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

There may be a fourth or more factors contributing. This article mentions global warming, el niño and dust particles, in other articles scientists speculate also that reduced shipping emissions may have lead to a weakening of a cooling effect in that area.