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#India to experience a very wet phase of weather, usually cool temperatures in the next 10 days with no seasonal #Heatwave which usually strengthen around this time.

A Typical Jan/Feb standard WD is approaching (200 hpa Jet streams dipping too south + CC developing)

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Dipping Jet/WD approaching North India + Lower level Cyclonic circulation developing in the plains, Wind discontinuity over central India along with moisture incursion from the seas.
- Scattered #Duststorm and rains to pick up in North #India from 27th April i.e tomorrow

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As the Wx systems strengthen, this will result in widespread #Duststorm, intense spells of #rains, #Hailstorm, strong winds across western #Himalayas #Punjab #Haryana #Delhi #Rajasthan #UttarPradesh #Gujarat #MadhyaPradesh #Chhattisgarh this weekend into first week of May.

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The Saharan dust Storms comes from the Sahel strip. Not from the Sahara desert itself #SaharanDust #polvodelSahara #duststorm
The Sahel strip is south of the Sahara. These are lands that are being desertified (turning into desert) for different reasons. Climate change, civil wars, migrations, exploitation of resources, deforestation and burning of slash to enable areas for livestock.
Where at this time of year arrives and the wind begins to lift all that particulate, takes it to the atmosphere and reaches in several days (5 to 6 days) to the Caribbean areas.
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