{"id":109170,"date":"2020-06-26T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-sahara-dust-storm-has-reached-the-us-mainland-heres-what-it-looks-like"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:42:46","slug":"the-sahara-dust-storm-has-reached-the-us-mainland-heres-what-it-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-sahara-dust-storm-has-reached-the-us-mainland-heres-what-it-looks-like","title":{"rendered":"The Sahara dust storm has reached the US mainland. Here\u2019s what it looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sahara-dust-storm-has-reached-the-us-mainland-heres-what-it-looks-like.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/06\/24\/sahara-dust-storm-us-gulf-coast-texas-what-to-expect\/3250102001\/ target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=|inline|intext|n\/a class=gnt_ar_b_a>huge plume of dust and sand<\/a>, blown by the wind from the Sahara Desert, has finally reached the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most significant Saharan dust events in decades, forecasters said.<\/p>\n<p>The densest plume of dust began to emerge off western Africa last weekend and has now moved into the Gulf of Mexico and the South, the Weather Channel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge plume of dust and sand, blown by the wind from the Sahara Desert, has finally reached the U.S. mainland. It\u2019s one of the most significant Saharan dust events in decades, forecasters said. The densest plume of dust began to emerge off western Africa last weekend and has now moved into the Gulf of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}