« Sahara » Attica – drowned in African dust and Crete

Scene by her Africa They remind the images in Attica with a cloud of dust to cover everything.

The phenomenon became more intense in the afternoon with visibility being limited even more.

« Sahara » Attica – drowned in African dust and Crete

As shown in the photos, the Acropolis and other places in downtown Athens were lost in a gray veil.

The wave of African dust that has covered a large part of the country from Crete, the Aegean, the Peloponnese to Eastern Central Greece has also been imprinted on the satellite image of NASA

However, Crete won the weather at the day of the day, as the highest maximum temperatures, the strongest winds and higher dust concentrations in the country were combined on the island.

As for the winds, according to the Network of Automatic Meteorological Stations of the National Observatory of Athens / meteo.gr, in the prefectures of Rethymnon and Lasithi, gusts of winds above 100 km / h were recorded.

The strongest burst was recorded in the Finalia Lasithi, with 137 km/h. At the same time, the concentrations of suspended particles were very high approaching 1000 micrograms/cubic meters, making the current episode of African dust transport as one of the most important dust transport episodes of recent years.

Indicative of very high dust concentrations is the photo followed by Rethymnon, which contains a table with the 8 strongest wind strips for Friday 16/05.