Although dust from the Sahara Desert has reached Florida multiple times this summer, it's a common occurrence that's known as the Saharan air layer. The sandstorm in the video has nothing to do with the phenomena that, according to Meteorologists, the video misrepresented by social media users included two separate clips. In one, a monolithic plume of sand encroaches a cargo ship that appears minuscule in comparison, and the second shows the sand engulfing a ship from which the video is being filmed until hardly anything is visible