Florida’s about to get a free shipment of dust — straight from the desert.

A mammoth cloud of Saharan dust , roughly the size of the continental U.S., is barreling across the Atlantic and expected to smother parts of the Sunshine State in a rusty haze this week.

The gritty gift from North Africa has already blanketed the Caribbean — and now it’s Florida’s turn to breathe it in.

“It’s the biggest one we’ve had so far this season,” Jason Dunion, a meteorologist who monitors hurricanes and Saharan dust, told the New York Times in an interview over the weekend

He likened the thick layer to a “London fog” with a “brilliant orange glow” at sunset. 3

By the time the 5,000-mile trans-Atlantic traveler reaches the Gulf Coast — from Florida to Texas — it’ll lose some of its bite, but r

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