Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight.
Your link is not working for me, OP. I think it was to this article.
The orange Sahara dust is known as 'calima' in Spain, and usually happens a few times a year.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 24, 2024 9:50 AM |
SE USA occasionally gets Saharan dust blown in from across the Atlantic as strange as that may seem.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 24, 2024 9:53 AM |
I taught in Africa. Common occurrence. I’d come home with crust forming around my eyes. Splash my face & the water would turn a dark, dusty red
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 24, 2024 10:14 AM |
[quote] SE USA occasionally gets Saharan dust blown in from across the Atlantic as strange as that may seem.
Back in the mid 70s I woke up one morning and the skies over Atlanta were red as blazes. I remember the news reported it was due to dust being blown in from somewhere outside the US, but after almost 50 years I can't remember where they said it came from. It lasted several days.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 24, 2024 10:58 AM |
Link is 404ed
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 24, 2024 12:40 PM |
Wait until R2 learns how a hurricane gets here from Africa!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 24, 2024 12:49 PM |
Phoenix does this every year.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 24, 2024 2:07 PM |
We had Orange Sydney in 2009. The Red Centre decided it wanted to see the Opera House.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 24, 2024 3:26 PM |
It’s a damn nuisance, every square inch of my garden and the outside of the house is covered. In this orange dust. All of the plant leaves are dirty, and even using a hosepipe doesn’t clean them. This happened a few years ago and it was only when a massive torrential rain came that they returned to normal.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 24, 2024 4:29 PM |