A plume of dust may arrive in the UK this week, leading to dramatic sunrises and sunsets, as well as possible blood rain. The ...

When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while ...

North African dust carried to the UK by a weather system are forecast to have some unusual effects in the coming days.

More frequent and intense winter dust events have affected Europe in recent years, according to some new research. Scientists believe that drier-than-normal conditions in northwestern Africa and more ...

More and more frequently, a weather phenomenon is making its way across France: a Sahara sand cloud carried by winds beyond the Mediterranean. This dust storm is expected to reach Paris and the entire ...

Known as “La Calima,” this desert dust plume could hit Spain, Portugal and France, bringing with it grit-laden, rust-colored ...

A plume of very fine sand and mineral particles has travelled all the way from North Africa to the UK on warm southerly winds ...

IRISH households are being warned not to put their washing outside as a plume of “Saharan dust” sweeps across the country, ...

Dust plumes, whipped up by winds over the Sahara Desert, are moving over western Europe. This annual phenomenon—known in ...

When the airborne particles mixed with rain-bearing weather systems, the result was muddy or "blood rain" that left a ...

BBC Weather Watchers and others have captured the otherworldly impact of a plume of Saharan dust high up in the atmosphere.

An “intense” Saharan dust plume is to sweep into Europe this week as sand from North Africa is blown into the Iberian peninsula and western Mediterranean. Colourful sunrises and sunsets, hazy skies, ...