MIAMI – A massive plume of Saharan dust arrived in Florida Thursday after a 5,000-mile journey from Africa, turning the sky a milky gray and suppressing some rain.

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The NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite time lapse video below shows the multi-day journey as the dust traveled thousands of miles across the Atlantic from late May to this week.

The immediate impacts in Florida of the dust are the appearance to the sky. Cameras over Miami and South Florida showed a muted sky on Thursday morning.

This thick plume of dust arrived during the first week of the Atlantic hurricane season, helping keep tropical development at bay – for now.

"I always think that Mother Nature has this checks and balance system and, for me, when it comes to hurricane season, the S

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