Another day that most areas of the country, mainly in the south, show eerie from the African dust. The dawn of Wednesday, April 24finds Athens in an intense and suffocating cloud of dust, which even the Acropolis is not visiblewhile also in Thessaloniki the dust has made its appearance.
Yesterday the Crete disappeared into the brown veilamid temperatures close to 30°C.
The scene was eerie from early this morning in the city of Kalamata but also in the entire prefecture of Messinia. The temperature just before 2pm had “climbed” to 32 degrees Celsius, where in combination with the strong hot wind that was blowing and the African dust, it was a stifling atmosphere.
In Patras impressive differences in temperature and humidity were recorded yesterday at the two stations of the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory of the University of Patras. Yesterday at 12:00 noon the temperature in Rio was measured at 20.3 degrees Celsius with a relative humidity of 54.9%. At the same time, the station in Koukouli (inside the city of Patras) showed 30.1 degrees Celsius with 22.2% humidity.
The shallow low in her area Latch moving towards Hellas it carried very large amounts of African dust making the air quality very difficult, making for an eerie scene with a red sky.
The attention of vulnerable groups is recommended by pulmonologists
The experts repeat it health hazarddue to the high concentration of microparticles in the air, while meteorologists predict that the phenomenon will last until todayat which point it will begin to recede from the west.
The African dust, combined with its strong fluctuations temperature, creates an explosive cocktail in the atmosphere. According to experts, African dust can cause exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasefor this patients with respiratory problems should not be exposed for long hours outside and wear masks.
“If I develop symptoms and do not know that I have a disease, I should not assume that this is the result of African dust. African dust in a healthy person does nothing. It means I have a respiratory disease and I haven’t discovered it,” he points out the professor of Pulmonology and Intensive Care, EKPA Theodoros Vasilakopoulos.
Gradual retreat from the west
The dust is gradually moving away from the country from the westaccording to ERT meteorologist Panagiotis Giannopoulos. In the afternoon it will be limited to the eastern Aegean and by evening the atmosphere will have cleared. Already in the morning, westerly winds are blowing in the west, in the Aegean the southeast winds will turn to westerlies from the afternoon.
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