{"id":14947,"date":"2020-06-25T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sahara-dust-cloud-looms-over-cuba-caribbean-and-florida\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:50:00","slug":"sahara-dust-cloud-looms-over-cuba-caribbean-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sahara-dust-cloud-looms-over-cuba-caribbean-and-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sahara dust cloud looms over Cuba, Caribbean and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A massive cloud of Saharan dust darkened much of Cuba on Wednesday and began to affect air quality in Florida, sparking warnings to people with respiratory illnesses to stay home.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Conditions over the Cuban capital Havana are expected to worsen on Thursday, specialists on the Communist-run island reported.
\nFrancisco Duran, head of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Health, said the cloud is likely to “increase respiratory and allergic conditions”.
\nAir quality in Miami is currently “moderate” the city’s health department said, asking people with respiratory problems to stay home.
\nAnd weather forecasters for the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique warned residents that the area was suffering its worst haze in at least a decade.
\nPowered by strong winds, dust from the Sahara travel<\/a>s across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa during the boreal spring.
\nBut the density of the current dust cloud over Cuba “is well above normal levels,” said Cuban meteorologist Jose Rubiera.<\/p>\n

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“The highest concentration over the capital will occur tomorrow,” he said.
\nAccording to the Institute of Meteorology, temperatures in Cuba’s eastern province of Guantanamo reached a record for the time of year of 37.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
\nIn Havana, scientist Eugenio Mojena said the phenomenon “causes an app<\/a>reciable deterioration in air quality.”
\nMojena said the dust clouds are loaded with material that is “highly harmful to human health.”
\nMojena 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.”
\nDuran ruled out any link with the coronavirus pandemic.
\nThe government said its epidemic is under control and last week began to relax quarantine measures, with Havana the only area where restrictions remain because it continues to register infections.
\nThe island reported a single new case on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections to 2,318, with 85 fatalities from COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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