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Smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest gets caught in a weather pattern and pulled all the way across the US and over to Europe. Hurricanes form off the coast of Africa and travel across the Atlantic to make landfall in the United States. Dust from the Sahara is blown into the Gulf of Mexico.
In this cool video created by NASA you visualize how dust, sand and other particulate matter moves with the wind from one continent to another. The video includes footage of 2017 hurricanes including Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Ophelia. (You too can create cool looking videos like this if you had the supercomputing resources like NASA.)
Brief story accompanying the video on NPR.
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The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday November 17 2017, @04:48PM
In the video there was a large "backdraft" through the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Ocean. I checked the date, and yes, it was September. Living in suburban Portland I distinctly remember those days: Labor Day was supposed to be over 100F but the smoke kept the temperature lower about 5~10 degrees and the world had a much different hue at noon (more like a sunset).