Due to the presence of the Saharan dust phenomenon, the effects on the Yucatan Peninsula of tropical wave number 1 of the year are reduced.
This phenomenon arrived on Friday 20 and is forecast to continue until Tuesday, May 24.
Therefore, Shalon Rojas Lagunes, a meteorologist from the Municipal Coordination of Civil Protection in Tulum explained that every year on these dates the presence of dust from the Sahara desert in Africa is expected.
It is also the time with the best conditions for its transfer to other countries, rising about seven kilometers from ground level to travel through the tropical Atlantic; reaching America.
This phenomenon has benefits such as the fact that the particles contain nutrients to fertilize ecosystems and inhibit the formation of tropical cyclones. But many of these particles are usually harmful to health, affect air quality and can create pests due to excessive fertilization of seaweed.
The expert said that when this phenomenon occurs together with tropical wave number 1, the dust reduces rainfall, “it makes it not severe. Tropical cyclones and even rains are difficult to form.
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