Rebecca Berry
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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Thanks so much, guys.
Welcome to this week's edition of Tracking the Tropics.
The good news is there's not much to talk about.
The bad news is we get really, really nerdy when there's not much to talk about, and that's certainly going to be the case today.
I'm meteorologist Rebecca Berry here at the WFLA Streaming Center, and I'm joined by meteorologist Juliana Mejia.
She has been our Tracking the Tropics graphics superstar.
She's been hard at work all this morning because we're gonna talk nerdy to you.
We're talking
Talking about Saharan Dust, all episode long, but first let's get the good news out of the way.
Absolutely.
I read a statistic that say when the Saharan air layer enters the atmosphere, it's about fifty percent drier than typical tropical moisture.
And so if you think about it, like if you took away half of the moisture, that's really gonna rob the storms of their ability to form.
And also when that that dust enters, just like you were just showing on there, it promotes a downdraft.
So let's say a storm that was formed and healthy moved into an area.
Full of Saharan dust, the downdrafts and that suppression would also cause that storm to weaken.
So the best news is when you don't get anything spinning up out there because of Saharan dust, but it's also really great when a storm has formed but enters that Saharan dust layer.
The other interesting fact about the Saharan air layer is the wind speeds are incredibly faster and within a Saharan air layer than anywhere else, where they're talking about 25 to 55 miles per hour faster.
In a typical Saharan air layer.
So that that shear itself is going to basically squash any development because hurricanes, they feed themselves and they strengthen and they remain intense because of vertical development.
So when you have that shear out there, you're absolutely that's that's a storm killer right there.
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