[sounding]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

The Sahara has been losing light weight , but fertile dust for, probably, many centuries. Likely that's why the Sahara has only sand left. It might also be why Florida and the whole Eastern part of the US has been great for farming for centuries. Even the native Americans had HUGE populations (so they MUST have been farming), but the Europeans carried diseases that QUICKLY wiped out MOST of the Eastern Native American tribes. So, it would seem that Saharan dust had a big influence on US History and population.
.....Also, as an aside......The Sahara Dust also causes a lot of allergies that are difficult for medical Doctors to diagnose. It has many symptoms similar to Covid.
........I don't understand WHY the Saharan winds form most every summer, but I think that there are some very profound geological and Climatological and medical effects. Maybe someone wrote a book about it?

The book ... Amazon.com