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Saharan dust, wildfire smoke turn stunning sci-fi like Florida sunrise
Wildfire smoke and incoming Saharan dust infiltrate skies, intensify sunrise colors and raise air quality concerns across South Florida.
Four days ahead of the summer solstice, the sun lifted above the horizon on Thursday like something out of a sci-fi movie, an orb shrouded in Arakis spice or suspended in space over the desert planet Tatooine.
But it wasn’t otherworldly fiction from the movies "Dune" or " Star Wars" , it was our Earth’s own creations and calamities that caused the sun to pulse in a glowing haze as it broke the twilight.
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