The shallow low in the area of Sirte moving towards Greece carried very large amounts of African dust
Satellite data of NASA’s American Aqua satellite that passed over our country on the morning of Tuesday, April 23, 2024, show in high resolution the intense wave of African dust “Minerva red” that took place in her area Eastern Mediterranean greatly affecting her Hellas. 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.
Apart from the African dust, very high temperatures were recorded in its regions Southern Greece and mainly in Crete, where in Falasarna, Chania the highest temperature with a value was also noted 36.6°C.
The weather today
According to his latest forecast weather of the EMY, in the west and north of the mainland, clouds are predicted to temporarily increase with a few local rains. Isolated storms will develop in the northwest during the early morning hours and again during the night hours.
In the rest of the country, sparse clouds, occasionally thicker.
Visibility will be locally limited in continental areas in the morning hours.
The winds in the eastern island country winds will initially be SE 7 to 8, but will quickly weaken and turn to S SW 3 to 5 and in the south 6 local to 7 Beaufort. In the rest of the areas, 4 to 6 Beaufort winds will blow from the west.
THE temperature will see a small drop mainly in the west.
Weather radar NOW, through WINDY using the GFS, ECMWF and NEMS forecast models
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