Desert dust reached Europe.

Sahara dust floats over Verbier, Switzerland, in March 2022. (AP)
Sahara dust colors the sky yellow and orange in Munich, Germany. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
This ski slope in Switzerland has Sahara dust on it. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)
A man looks at the city of Madrid in Spain. Dust blew there too. (AP/Manu Fernandez)
People play basketball on a court covered with dust in Madrid, Spain. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

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A large desert is in Africa. A dust storm started there. March winds swirled it into Europe [YOOR-uhp].

Thick dust covered cars. The sky was orange. People wore masks. Rain made carrot-colored mud.

Pray: that you will not grumble when the weather is unpleasant. It is God who determines what the weather will be.

Read More: All of the continental United States could fit into the Sahara Desert in Africa. And there would be some empty desert left. Dust from this desert is often picked up by winds and carried to countries in Europe. It usually happens in February and March. This dust storm was worse than many. Dust was flung onto Paris, France; London, England; and Madrid, Spain. Other places were coated too. The prophet Isaiah (48:21) remembers how God protected His people when Moses led them through the desert. “He made water flow for them from a rock.”