A depression installed on the Iberian peninsula carries sand from the Sahara to France. It colors the sky of many cities in France this Saturday. If the phenomenon is common, its scale has dramatically changed the landscapes in the Pyrenees, especially in Andorra.
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It is a common meteorological phenomenon but its magnitude makes the happiness or the surprise of walkers in the Pyrenees. Sand from the Sahara is rising over a large part of France this Saturday. It made the sky of Toulouse yellow in the morning, that of Mulhouse and Lyon more orange. And covered many cars with dust. But it is on the mountains that this breath from the desert is most spectacular.
In the Pyrenees, sometimes combined with rain at high altitude, it only took a few hours to turn the snow into gold and the landscapes into a desert, as the publications delighted by many Internet users show.
In front of this Andorran restaurant, very close to Porte-Puymorens, for example, the landscape has taken on a lunar aspect:
Today in Andorra ???????? a stone’s throw from Porte-Puymorens with the rain from the Sahara
Published by UNA Porté-Puymorens / Hotel Bar Restaurant sure Saturday February 6, 2021
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A little further, in Granvalira, still in Andorra, this motorist scratches the sand with his car key to find the whiteness of the snow:
While a skier contemplates the Martian landscape under his spatulas:
???????? @noworkingonpowderdays #sablesaharien #pols #andorra ???????? Proof that there is water …. on Mars!
Published by Weather Pyrenees sure Saturday February 6, 2021
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Météo France explains that it is a depression installed on the Iberian Peninsula which organizes this “powerful southerly flow that brings sand from the Sahara to France“. And publishes a satellite image where we can distinguish in pale yellow these streaks of desert sand:
???? Seen from space || A low pressure system on the Iberian Peninsula organizes a powerful southerly flow which brings up sand from the #Sahara as far as France. Saharan lifts appear in yellowish on sat image. between Balearic Islands and Sardinia.
???? METEOSAT11, 06/02, 12hUTC pic.twitter.com/jG6Y7Khs0M
– Météo-France (@meteofrance) February 6, 2021
According to the specialized monitoring center of the Spanish national weather, these sand particles will move on Sunday towards the center of Europe, gradually losing in intensity. After sweeping through eastern Spain, southern and eastern France, they should affect Italy, Switzerland, a good part of Germany, Austria or the Czech Republic.
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