HOUSTON – For the past few days, drivers in the Houston area have been using their windshield washer fluid a bit more than usual because their vehicles have been covered in a thin layer of dust. It turns out, that dust is the result of strong winds stirring up a dust storm north of Texas, which moved across the state during the weekend. There is some lingering suspended dust particles across the area that has also entered into the Gulf of Mexico from a dust storm that moved across the Texas panhandle yesterday. #txwx pic.twitter.com/uS6wXJzQBd — NWS Austin/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) January 16, 2021Overnight tonight, satellite imagery is able to detect a dust plume from a dust storm that occurred across Texas today due to strong winds. That is when upper-level winds carry dust from the North Africa desert across the globe and deposit in the Western Hemisphere.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 17, 2021 22:30 UTC