CONCORD, N.H. — No, New England, that wasn’t a brand new pressure of spring pollen coating your vehicles. It was mud carried throughout the nation in a phenomenon often called “soiled rain.”
April showers are presupposed to convey Could flowers, however the gentle rain that fell throughout the area final Friday and Saturday introduced grime as a substitute. Christian Bridges, a meteorologist with WGME-TV in Portland, Maine, was as perplexed as anybody till he checked the satellite tv for pc imagery.
“You possibly can see that mud bought picked up in New Mexico two days earlier than on Thursday by the identical storm system,” he stated. “It then introduced it up into the far northern a part of the U.S. after which finally introduced all of it the best way to New England.”
Robust wind introduced the mud to an altitude of round 10,000 ft (3,000 meters), he stated, beneath the extent of rain clouds.
“So the rain sort of grabbed the mud because it was falling and introduced it all the way down to the bottom,” Bridges stated. “It’s sort of cool to suppose it was transported 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) throughout the nation.”
Elements of Wisconsin, Michigan and the northern Nice Lakes area additionally reported “soiled rain” or “mud rain” earlier than it hit Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Bridges stated such rain is uncommon however not unprecedented and is just like the best way smoke from Western wildfires makes it manner east.
