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Poros is hit by an apocalyptic Saharan dust storm tonight. Day has turned into a spooky orange twilight.
It got so dark I had to turn on the lights. It's the sort of scenario where you expect to hear the town crier singing out
'Repent ye sinners. The end is nigh'
Tomorrow there should be a wind change which will blow the dust wave away to the east over the islands of the Dodecanese.
Athens.
Taken by grandson this evening on his way, with his army squad, to lower the Greek flag on top of the Acropolis
Spooky....
ReplyDeleteThat is spooky indeed! I hope the wind changes as promised. And Xronia Polla to your grandson George!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sara. I hope it is all blown away tomorrow. Everything outside is covered in red dust. It's going to be a big cleaning job
DeleteYour grandchildren all sound wonderfully active and well motivated. I hope you get much better weather tomorrow. Is the sand so fine that it finds its way into the house as well?
ReplyDeleteIt's more like dust but thick and very hard to wash off. It needs a good scrub. Thank goodness it doesn't get inside except for what we tramp in
DeleteWow. We hear about it. Like an Eclipse
ReplyDeleteYes, the sun disappears, the sky is completely orange
DeleteWow. Yes very apocalyptic indeed. I guess now you’ll have lots of cleaning to do to remove all that dust and sand. I hope you didn’t have washing on the line
ReplyDeleteThank goodness, no washing and we had cleaned carpets and hung them out but they had dried and quickly came inside again. Everything outside is covered in a layer of dust
DeleteThat looks a bit scary!!
ReplyDeleteCreepy!
DeleteGosh, that really does look apocalyptic. Now you'll have fun hosing-down all your cars, garden furniture, and outdoor areas. Or will you just wait till it rains?
ReplyDeleteRain just makes it worse with horrible streaks. Everything will have to be hosed and scrubbed. Darn it. We were cleaning the outside for summer. More work
DeleteWe had a Sahara sand fall in Ireland recently.
ReplyDeleteThere may be some more heading your way. It ain't over yet
DeleteLooks scary, I hope it doesn't make its way to us. It's 40 degrees Celsius here today and tomorrow, so far no dust.
ReplyDeleteIt's hot here too but 35 not 40. We've got a long hot summer ahead
DeleteMy goodness, not nice at all! The clean-up must be a pain as well. A gigantic hoover would be nice!
ReplyDeleteWe are all supposed to be saving water but that's about the only way to get rid of it. And there's more coming they say
DeleteThe dust storm reminds me of the Australian fires a few years back that did the same to our sky. When we were in UK last year we woke to our cars covered in some white powder and it turned out that it was a sand storm from the Sahara!
ReplyDeleteThe sand often reaches way over to the other side of Europe.
ReplyDeleteI remember photos of your skies during the fires. A very similar sight
Those are truly spectacular photos. Photos like that even made it only BBC news. Fortunately we never saw anything like it while living there - and have no idea how you are breathing in that (is it turning your hair orange too?) My Grandad commented in the years they lived in the Aussie outback that the red dust changed their hair colour!
ReplyDeleteIt usually irritates my eyes but oddly the thick cloud didn't worry me this time. Heaven knows what we were breathing in
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