[AZ-Observing] Re: Asian dust incoming

Brian,

Sure can see it from Payson, darn - just getting out of full moon now!  If it 
isnt high winds this year, its some one elses dust.  Geez.

Chris


--- On Wed, 4/23/08, Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AZ-Observing] Asian dust incoming
> To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 7:23 PM
> The global aerosol maps published daily by a group at
> Goddard
> Space Flight Center has been showing a northeast Asian dust
> event likely headed in our direction:
> 
> http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov
> 
> While the vast swath of dust over northern Africa is pretty
> typical
> for this season, the heavy concentration in the upper-right
> corner is not.  This stuff has been making its way
> gradually
> across the Pacific (i.e. to the upper-left corner of the
> aerosol
> plot) the last week, and has been making itself obvious
> since
> last weekend.  Expect pretty high extinction and dim views
> of things for the next week at least---depending on how the
> upper-level
> winds push the material around.
> 
> 
> \Brian
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