It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope, that's just a Saharan dust cloud headed over the Atlantic Ocean straight toward the southeastern United States and yes, you guessed it, Louisiana.
marine death of fish and other plants and animals. they are also associated with more intense storms and this comes against a backdrop of elevated sea temperatures across the whole of the north atlantic. in may they were 1.25 celsius above the long term average, a really significant high. scientists are not entirely sure why this is happening under comes against the back drop of climate change pushing up temperatures so that is the bedrock on which it rests but they talk about other things driving temperatures to make these highs, unusual patterns of trade winds, a lack of sahara dust in the atmosphere which normally reflects back some of the heat and there is less pollution from chips, changes in the rules on fuels means fewer aerosols in the atmosphere and less heat being radiated back but it comes against the backdrop of a global height sea temperature and scientists what we could see exceptional temperatures again later on this year.