Colossal Cloud of Sahara Dust Is Smothering the Caribbean En Route to the US

Colossal Cloud of Sahara Dust Is Smothering the Caribbean En Route to the US
Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean, in Cataño, Puerto Rico, on June 2, 2025. Alejandro Granadillo/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.

The cloud extended some 2,000 miles from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 750 miles from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago.