The phenomenon is for the hour very visible in the southwest and will not delay to “intensify”, according to weather-France.
Le Monde
An orange sky in the southwest and rather yellowish in Paris. An episode of desert dust from the Sahara crossed France, Tuesday, March 15, a phenomenon confirmed by Weather-France . If the phenomenon is more visible in the southwest, where it “will intensify”, warned Tuesday morning Weather-France, it will not delay to “Remark [e] progressive [lying] in the night to Brittany”.
This meteorological phenomenon is explained by the occurrence of strong hot winds loaded with sand dust from the African desert. Storms create wind gusts on the ground surface that lifts sand and dust particles, so explained the Spanish National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) in a video shared on Twitter, while Spain was touched As early as Monday by the phenomenon.
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Quite frequent, especially in the Canary Islands archipelago, located in northwestern Africa, the “Calima” has this time touched South-East Spain in the northwest, the region of Murcia until in Cantabria. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, this sand dust fell in Madrid and thus covered cars, terraces, plants on the balconies. According to the authorities, the “calima” deeply degrades the quality of the air.
The smaller particles remain in the air in favor of a temperature difference between the warm air and the ground that cools, while the heaviest fall, detailed the Aemet. The quality of the air was bad Tuesday morning in the affected areas: stations located in Madrid or in the towns of Segovia or Avila (center) measured “extremely unfavorable” air quality.
The wind then carried these particles towards the Iberian Peninsula, concluded the meteorological agency, which does not exclude “mud rains” in Spain.