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Calima Dust Storm Causes Air Travel Delays in Canary Islands
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Travelers arriving for the spring holidays met an orange haze instead of clear skies.
Calima dust storm causes air travel delays in Canary Islands
Spain’s idyllic Canary Islands kicked April off with an intense dust storm, which has significantly reduced air quality. The calima dust storm, which set off yellow weather warnings across the islands from Monday, March 30, has reduced visibility, caused warnings for tourists, and disrupted air travel. The calima dust storm, or haze, as it is also known, arrived across several islands from… Source
The Canary Health Service has activated since this Tuesday the contingency plans to attend to the population before the episode of calima that affects the archipelago. So...
The combination of a subtropical dorsal and a dana has created a highway through which huge amounts of dust have been filtered from the Sahara. More information: The hidden danger of the calima: millions of contaminants in a dust storm
When an entrance of calima arrives to the Canary Islands, the first thing that usually comes to mind are the cloudy skies, the uncomfortable heat and the worsening of the air quality. It is not an exaggerated perception. AEMET itself recalls that the intrusions of Saharan mineral dust are a frequent phenomenon in the geographic environment of the islands and that they have important impacts in areas such as health, agriculture, transport or sola…
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