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Sahara dust cloud smothers Germany, France and Switzerland (www.dw.com)
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Residents of some cities had a dusty start to the weekend after an unusually high level of particulates arrived from the Sahara. Forecasters in Germany expect the dust to be visible through Easter.

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[-] UNY0N@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Just some background info for those not familiar with this Sahara-Dust phenomenon:

This happens all the time, and has for a long time. It is just a byproduct of being so close to this monster of a desert.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I can always tell when it's happening, not by any visual phenomena but because my car gets covered in this dusty dirt. I live in England.

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Même dans les Caraïbes ça arrive fréquemment malgré les 6000km de distance.

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 10 points 8 months ago

Bet the sunsets will be nice though, yes?

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

looks like it's just hazy

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

Like the filmmaker accidentally turned on the Mexico filter.

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Bravo, Vince

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

oh so that's really what it was,
ive seen a weirdly yellow sky recently.

i thought it may be sahara sand, but i wasnt sure, because i was used to it being a more of an orange color.

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Looks like SoCal fire season. Welcome to the haze.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

They wanted no immigrants, they got sand.

[-] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

The Sahara dust cloud shouldn't have stopped at Berlin

[-] D61@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago

So how will NATO respond to this?

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