State environment officials in at least one state are looking into reports of a powder in the air and on some vehicles in parts of the mid-Atlantic U.S.
A dust-like substance was reported in the state’s eastern Panhandle, about 100 miles west of Washington, D.C… The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is working with state and local agencies to collect and analyze samples of it. A statement about this was released on Friday.
Residents in more than one county said they saw the substance late Thursday night, so the agency started looking into it.
On Friday, people in West Virginia, Northern Virginia, and Maryland posted about seeing the powder in the air and on cars.
According to a statement from the Department of Environmental Protection, the dust will be tested at a state lab in West Virginia to see if it is related to recent dust storms in the Midwest. Satellite pictures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association show that dust from hurricanes in Texas and New Mexico moved east through Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky on Thursday.
Finally, leveraging the enhanced forward scattering geometry from @NOAASatellites #GOES18/#GOEswest, the airborne blowing dust signature can be seen as far to the east as West Virginia: https://t.co/z9LHhZP8Nw; #WVwx pic.twitter.com/KdZPM9G2zF
— UW-Madison CIMSS (@UWCIMSS) February 23, 2023
In a statement, the Maryland Department of the Environment said it was aware of the reports and that the most likely cause was dust from Texas and New Mexico. The agency said that a change in the wind brought clean air from Canada and that the air quality was good on Friday.
In a phone interview, Terry Fletcher, a West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection spokesman, said there is no evidence that the powder is linked to the recent toxic train derailment in Ohio. He said the Feb. 3 crash hadn’t caused any problems with the air quality in the northern Panhandle, where air quality is constantly checked.
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