A massive plume of Saharan dust arrived to Florida after a 5,000-mile journey from Africa on Thursday, turning the sky a milky gray and suppressing some rain.

Massive clouds of Sahara Desert dust are moving over the Atlantic toward Central and North America, with the possibility of reaching Florida and other states, including Texas, this week. The dust has covered parts of the Caribbean,

A dust plume that has been traveling across the Atlantic may later spread as far as Texas and Georgia as a weather system breaks it apart.