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Weather and climate events

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2024

Dust transport

21–24 April 2024 · Greece, eastern Mediterranean

Saharan dust turns Athens orange

A low in the Ionian Sea drove a southerly wind from Libya to the Aegean. Over Attica the dust was about ten times its April normal.

Dust AOD: 0.98
April normal: 0.09
PM2.5: 71 µg m⁻³

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