Vast dust cloud from the Sahara Desert blankets much of the Caribbean en route to the US

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert settled over the Caribbean on Monday, as it made its way from Africa to the United States.

The cloud extended some 3,200 kilometers from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 1,200 kilometers from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago.

“It’s very impressive,” said Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane expert with…