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The skies over Portugal and Spain took on an unusually yellow hue this week. The culprit was a vast plume of sand and dust blown northward from the Sahara desert by the calima, a warm southeasterly wind common in North Africa in winter. The calima often carries dust toward the Canary Islands, but an atmospheric low-pressure system pulled the winds north. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory News]
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