A large area of Saharan dust (SAL) covered Puerto Rico for several days causing hazy skies and reduced visibilities.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
A large area of Saharan dust (SAL) covered Puerto Rico for several days causing hazy skies and reduced visibilities.
3 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ponce City Mercedita airport weather observation indicated horizontal visibilities of 8 miles due to haze or saharan dust.
The Luis Munoz Marin International airport ASOS sensor indicated horizontal visibilities varying between 6 and 9 miles due to haze or saharan dust.
The Aguadilla City airport weather observation indicated visibilities of 5 miles in haze or saharan dust.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, June 2009
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 183767, 183766, 183768.