Hurricane!

Did Saharan dust put a damper on the 2006 hurricane season?

August comes in with me washing Saharan African dust off my car as the dry and dusty atmosphere was invading from the east here in South Florida. This same dry air and dust had a lot to do with the lack of hurricane development in the Atlantic in 2006. Things started to become a bit more active as we moved into the first and second day of August with the development of Tropical Storm Chris. The “C” named storm this year was not going to hurt anyone or damage anyone’s property like the previous two seasons with major category four Hurricane Charley in Punta Gorda, Florida in 2004, and Hurricane Cindy in southeastern Louisiana in 2005. Tropical Storm Chris went on to weaken and die over the Southeastern Bahamas.