new video loaded: Storm Winds Blanket Australia in Thick Dust transcript There’s the Avondale sign there. Avondale, I should say. I can only just see it. God, bloody terrible. Righto. I better ...

This dust is known as the Saharan Air Layer, or SAL. Every once in a while, like with this upcoming dust storm, the conditions are such that large amounts of dust can get all the way to the U.S.