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Weather Warning: Desert Sand at 100km / h Imminent in Italy. The affected areas

Sand from the Sahara desert is comingA load of sand coming directly from the heart of the Sahara desert will soon hit a large part of Italy, pushed and dragged by very strong Scirocco windsmaking the heavens yellow and red and creating an atmosphere that at times can be truly surreal.
The latest update confirmed that the “worst” is yet to come and that this situation will accompany us for a few more days, involving many regions.

We have been telling you this for a few days, but now we repeat it to you. If you were planning to wash the car it would be better if you postpone it again, this is not the time to do it!
But what is going on? The weather configuration of these days, or the opposition of a cyclone (low pressure area) active between Algeria and the Iberian Peninsula yet African anticyclonic promontorywill be the basis of a constant recall of warm currents (Scirocco) directly from the Sahara desert. In particular on the Strait of Sicily and the Strait of Messina the gusts of Scirocco can reach almost 100 km / h.
This immense atmospheric gear will favor the arrival of sandstorms, with large quantities of the dust of the desertico which will focus in suspension at the highest altitudes of the atmosphere, ready to reach, after a long journey, central and southern Europe and therefore also our country.

time – During Friday 18 March we’ll have loaded skies Of desert sand, hazy, milky or yellowish (but in some cases they could also turn out reddish, especially near sunrise and sunset). A change is expected only over the next weekend.

RISK AREAS – To tell the truth, almost all of Italy could be affected by this phenomenon. However, to make the lion’s share, as can be seen from the map SKIRON (University of Athens) will be Sardinia, Sicily, Puglia, Lazio, Tuscany, Liguria e Campania. Among these, due to the rainsit will be mostly about two o’clock Major Islands and on Calabria that the sand will deposit on the ground “dirtying” every surface, including cars, with red!Sand from the Sahara Desert, arriving in large quantities (brownish) in almost all regions