Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Sahara wind brings a chill in northern Nigeria

For a few weeks each year, the shifting winds roil southward out of the Sahara Desert, drying West Africa's air and darkening its skies with sandy grit. The wind grounds planes, coats palm trees in yellow dust and sends inhabitants accustomed to blustery equatorial weather huddling together against an uncommon nighttime chill.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-dust16mar16,1,4827003.story

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