This meteorological phenomenon, which is strong hot winds laden with sand dunes from the Sahara desert, has been called the “calima” by Spain.
Orange cars, dusty metro corridors, and a yellowish-colored horizon are the results of orange cars. A thin layer of sand from Sahara fell overnight on Madrid and some parts of Spain from Monday to Tuesday March 15. What was the result? As you can see, the Spanish sky became orange.
Many of them rinsed their roofs, terraces and plants with water this Tuesday morning in Madrid, the Spanish capital that is where the fine ocher powder was found.
Metro and parking lot floors were dirty and windows on top floors had brownish marks.
This meteorological phenomenon, which is strong hot winds laden with sand dust from Sahara desert, has been called the Theatrical Storm. « calima ». It is very common in the Canary archipelago in northwest Africa.
That « calima »This affected Spain from the southeast to the northwest, from the region Murcia to Cantabria. It caused unusual cleaning scenes and greatly degraded the quality of the air, according to authorities.
The winds from storms that occur in the Sahara desert can cause wind gusts to blow on the ground, raising dust and sand particles, according to the Spanish National Meteorological Agency, Aemet, in a Twitter video.
Thanks to the temperature difference between hot air at height and ground, the smallest particles are still in the air, while the larger ones drop, detailed the AEMET.
According to the agency, the wind carried the particles towards the Iberian Peninsula. “mud rain”Spain
Tuesday morning’s air quality in affected areas was poor. Stations in Madrid, Segovia and Avila (center), measured the air quality. “extremely unfavorable”.
Crossing the Pyrenees, the dust mainly passed this Tuesday over western France, where the phenomenon was particularly visible, for example in Bordeaux or La Rochelle according to Météo France, before heading north.
France: The phenomenon should continue until Thursday due to the fact that the sand is still there “is blocked by an anticyclone over Greece”, explained to journalists Marine Jeoffrion, from Météo France. He touches “a good part of the country”even if “the south is less impacted”.