The desert dust comes in the southwest orange warning due to wind
Due to the transition of the desert dust, the levels of dust particles will be increased today and tomorrow, the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia warns. Therefore, it recommends that the population regularly monitor the hourly values of the PM10 or the index of outdoor air quality and to adjust the outdoor activities in accordance with the recommendations of the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).
In the case of air pollution with these particles, especially vulnerable population groups (infants and children, the elderly, heart and pulmonary and diabetics) advises to limit outdoor movement and ventilate living spaces at a time when the pollution level is lower. Chronic pulmonary (asthma, COPD) and cardiovascular patients should regularly take prescribed therapy, and should also have medicines for rapid relief or deterioration. Accelerated heart rate, lack of breath, or unusual fatigue can predict a serious deterioration of the underlying disease. In such cases, they should seek medical attention quickly, including NIJZ.
Arso, for today’s night and tomorrow, announces windy weather. The gusts of the south wind in Slovenian Istria could exceed 70 miles per hour. From 6pm today to 6am on Thursday morning, an orange warning was issued for the southwestern part of the country.
Wind gusts are strengthened in the north and middle Adriatic and could grow into a stormy south by the evening. Individual gusts could reach speeds above a hundred miles per hour and cause up to six meters high waves.
In the southern Adriatic, meanwhile, they expect up to four meters high waves, the Hydrometeorological Center data according to the Croatian news agency Horn.
Due to adverse weather conditions, all the catamaran lines from Split towards the islands are interrupted today, Jadrolini said. The ferry lines of Split-Vela Luka-Lastovo, Sumartin-Makarska and Sucuraj-Jrvenik are also interrupted.
According to Ars, today, in western and partly central Slovenia, it will be variable to mostly cloudy, and in the east it will be mostly sunny. During the day, individual showers and thunderstorms will be most likely in northwestern Slovenia. In some places it will blow the south to the southeast wind, by the sea south.
It will be mostly cloudy and mostly dry on Thursday. In the middle of the day, local precipitation will begin in the West, partly storms that will spread east in the afternoon. The sea will be blowed by the sea, elsewhere the wind of the southern directions.
