Central Ohio Weather and Radar
Did you notice the dust/dirt outside?
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Many of you have emailed, called and messaged into the Storm Team 4 weather center tonight mentioning your dirty vehicles and asking, "What is going on?" For most of the last two months, a dirty vehicle was a way of life as it was snowing just about every day it seemed ?
This time, it wasn't salt and road grime, but likely dust/dirt from wind storms out to the southwest U.S. earlier this week. Just like our windy weather, the same systems have been kicking up big winds out southwest, and for some of our friends in the south, creating actual dust storms!
What is causing this locally?
Since the jet stream, or that highway of winds above us in the sky has been fairly strong the past few days, and travelling from near New Mexico, through Texas, up toward Missouri, and then eastbound toward Ohio, it has been a good conveyor belt to transport matter in the atmosphere. Since the dust was picked up well in the southwest, it was lifted as it traveled east.
In the 100+ mph winds aloft, this dust was carried with some light amounts falling to the ground. However, when precipitation is introduced, its heavier, and the dust/dirt attaches to the rain/snow and then falls to the ground as either dirty rain or dirty snow.
As long as the dust/dirt layer in the atmosphere is at or below the level of the precipitation then what does fall out of the clouds should also collect some of the dust/dirt on the way down. It is hard to see it on the roads, or many other surfaces, because they almost always have some level of dust/dirt on them. But a clean car, windows, windshields it will show up pretty nicely on.
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