Sandstorm

Not easy to see on the photos, but the sky is yellowish and it feels a bit harder to breathe.

Maybe the printed “yellow” helps set the mood.

Thanks, Sahara.

@Mandalorian It was taken after I saw his, the influence was very present...

@maique I’ve never experienced a sandstorm. The closest thing must be shoveling sand in the wind, and even that wasn’t very pleasant. I didn’t think the winds carried it thus far. A friend of mine were in Tenerife just at the onset of the pandemic, and he had to stay several days longer because the planes couldn’t take off because of a sandstorm.

@maique @Mandalorian my white car was red/brown today after it rained a little. Feels like this Sahara sand thing is also happening quite regularly nowadays. Can't remember this happening in the past…

@maique When we get skies like this it's from ash, which is never fun, either 😔 It certainly makes for interesting/pretty pictures, but it's not really a worthwhile trade, hey. Hope the sandstorm passes soon.

@odd @maique The wind can carry things a very long way indeed. We're 4,000 Km from Australia but still have had their bushfire smoke in our air (not recently — a year or two since the last lot).

@Miraz Now that you mention it, I remember hearing that. Reminds me how important it is to stop deserts spreading, and environmental protection in general. 🌱

@hutaffe We’ve had it before, but this time the rain seems to have stopped just in time, and we only got the yellow filter. Maybe tomorrow we’ll be served muddy rain. Hopefully you’ll get clean rain soon, and that will take care of the new paint job.

@odd We get this from time to time, we’re close to the desert. But no sand, just particles in the sky.

@Miraz Impressive! I don’t thing we’re that far from the desert, and this is now regular. Not a lot of them, but it’s not a surprise anymore.

@maique Dust? I see. I thought it was strange if grains of sand could travel that far.

@odd Yes 🙂 It’s incredible, still. We forget how close we are to the desert. I did a quick search, and Spain seems to be getting hit much harder, the sky is orange over there. Beautiful.

@odd Just came across a tweet with photos taken on the mountain range where the border of Spain and France stands. Impressive.

@maique @odd We had some Saharan dust all the way out here a couple of summers ago. Wasn't quite as orange, but it made everything extremely hazy.

@skoobz Saw just now that this one is moving north 🙂

@Miraz what gets up into the sky can carry very far and hang there for a long time… there is more than speculation that Edvard Monk’s Scream painting was inspired by unusual skies resulting from the erruption of Krakatoa… many years later… the painting was made in 1893, a full ten years after the Krakatoa erruption in 1883: skyandtelescope.org/press-rel...

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@cdevroe Still going… 🙂

@maique I guess it can have it’s own beauty, but I don’t envy the asthmatics over there. Have you heard the joke about the lumberjack?

There were two elderly guys at a bar, and they got to talking together. So one of them asks the other: “So, what were you doing for a living?” The other one says: “I was a lumberjack… in Sahara”. The other one replies: “Haha, but there isn’t any trees in Sahara!” So the lumberjack replied: “Well… now there isn’t!” 🥁

@maique Wow! Looks like ice cream with caramel! Is it the Pyrenees? (Looked so by that name).

@skoobz Whaaat? That’s incredible. I had no idea it could travel that far.

@odd @maique I was on a beach in a hurricane, once. Rough on the skin. I expect this is very different.

@mbkriegh How interesting. I had no idea…

@cliffordbeshers @odd It should be very different 🙂 This feels exactly the same as when the sky is clear, except when you’re trying to breathe 😔

@odd Yes, yes it is.

@maique Oof, so just the very small particles. I'm guessing it is about as pleasant as the smoke from our wildfires.

@cliffordbeshers Yes, I guess so. Tiny particles. Smoke is probably worse, I remember the smell as well. These are odorless.