Why have cars suddenly been covered in this mysterious red dust?


Motorists in various parts of Yorkshire were surprised to wake up to a layer of mysterious red dust on their vehicles today.
But what has caused this layer of muck to be deposited on on your car bonnets, roofs and windscreens?
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Hide AdThe answer could well lie thousands of miles away in Africa. The strange scenario is one that has played out a number of times before across the UK and is usually put down to an unusual phenomenon which sees sand in the Sahara Desert get sucked up into the atmosphere by huge storms.


This sand then travels for thousands of miles high up in the atmosphere before it is deposited in rain.
Over the lat week much of the UK has seen temperatures soaring due to hot air funneling in from the southern Mediterranean and North Africa.