Last week, part of the country's sky had been veiled in a yellow color, resulting from sand dust from the Sahara pushed by the winds.

A well-known metrological phenomenon that always creates surprise.

The sand of the Sahara will again irradiate the landscape between Saturday and Tuesday, reports

Ouest-France

.

This prediction is given by the European institute Copernicus: the specialists noticed that a cloud of sand coming from the Sahara was above the Maghreb and that it took the way of Italy and France by the Mediterranean basin.

The new "#Siroco" (dust of #Sahara) which interests #Spain should affect the South, the West, then the center of #France in an attenuated way between Friday and Tuesday (probably dirtying the surfaces on appearance of the first rains at the beginning of the week)!

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— Guillaume Séchet (@Meteovilles) March 24, 2022

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This means that not all French regions will be affected.

The sky could cloud over in the territories of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Occitanie and New Aquitaine.

The sand clouds are already over Spain.

Images of Malaga in the south of the country posted on Twitter by Guillaume Séchet, a weather journalist, show a fundamentally orange sky.

A less intense episode

“This dust will reach the south of France at the end of the week, in relatively modest proportions” specifies the specialist.

These are hundreds of thousands of tonnes that will cross the country but unlike the previous episode, there should be no precipitation.

This sand, which should pass over part of the Pyrenees, could contribute to premature snowmelt.

“Put two identical snowballs in the sun, one of which contains a pebble.

This is the one that will melt faster, “said a weather specialist to Sud-Ouest.

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