Woke up to my car covered in dust/muck?

[Contigo]

Car was washed, waxed and polished and sure enough woke up to it being mottled. went out there and gave it a nice polish again and it's back to square one. The sand on it was awful though! Made the mit brown!

[mikebristol]

Car covered in dust this morning, wish I had put the cover on when I got home late last night instead of being lazy. Now I'm going to have to wash it so the cover can go on!

[CoolHands]

Contigo said:

Made the mit brown!

The Mother-In-Law? Brown you say? Racist!

[Galileo]

Just finished washing 28 of my cars. Bloody stuff.

[Chicane-UK]

Wasn't just me then.. mine was covered in the stuff too.. :| (Coventry)

[dixieflatline]

Another one here (in Didcot), but as a bonus my back windscreen was also covered in ants.*

* maybe 'covered' is an exaggeration, but it was at least eight

[Contigo]

CoolHands said:

The Mother-In-Law? Brown you say? Racist!

MIT -> Mother In Law? MIL?

Tenuous Link?

Crack Pipe?

[mikebristol]

rhinochopig said:

It's normally sand from places like the Sahara. It gets picked up by the weather system, forms rain droplets at high altitude and then is dropped over the UK landmass.

Knew my geog GCSE would come in handy one day.

Yep, it's from the Sahara

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/dust...

[XDA]

Same here in Southern Scotland!

I wondered what it was and just thought it had happened when I was out yesterday.

[IrateNinja]

Mine was covered this morning as well! Though it may have been related to building works going on down the road too.

[djfaulkner]

Is the start of the end..... I tell you!!!

Cant tell if my was covered this morning, it hasnt been cleaned in ages.
I keep putting my foot down to see if the dirty comes off, but nothing yet.

[papercup]

Same in Brighton, washed two days ago

[boobles]

Yep, only washed mine 2 days ago & it's covered in this stuff. Hampshire.

[youngsod]

Yup, it's good old Saharan dust, brought up by the heat plume that's causing me to sit in the office sweating my way to an early grave.

You can see the origin of this batch of dust in these images from the 23rd/24th over northwest Africa

http://www.woksat.info/etcuf23/uf23-1431-c-apt-s.h...
http://www.woksat.info/etcuf24/uf24-1421-c-apt-s.h...
http://www.woksat.info/etcuf24/uf24-1421-f-can.htm...

[All that jazz]

Just reading this thread and thinking to myself "yeah, they'll all exaggerating, it'll just be some pollen dust, see it before" etc, but I've just been out to the car and HOLY fk you guys aren't kidding! Looks like someone's chucked a bucketful of muddy water all over it! I only washed it last night too.

[deadmau5]

I haven't washed my car for almost a month so thankfully it looked just as dirty this morning as it did last night from spending 7 hours driving yesterday!

[XDA]

All info about it here:

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/dust...

[anonymous-user]

And me, I live in Wiltshire.

A lot of cars in Bristol have it too

[AndyBrew]

Washed mine last night, it was bloody spotless!

[Riley Blue]

Saharan sand eh? I'll get out my bucket and spade!