African dustaccompanying the cyclone Erminiocovered Santorini, Cyclades And Creteturning the sky implicit the islands into a thick red-orange curtain.
In a fig of areas the scenery has go astir Martian view: visibility deteriorated sharply, the aerial became heavy, and transport links were partially disrupted.
The astir awesome footage comes from Santoriniwhere the caldera was shrouded successful a dense particulate haze under a reddish sky. A akin representation was observed connected Naxos, Tinos And Syroswhere visibility decreased importantly and the ambiance took connected an unusual orange-red hue.
A akin situation arose successful Crete. IN Heraklion, Rethymno And Chania the streets and coastline were much reminiscent of the landscapes of different satellite than the usual spring Greece. Experts warn that with such particulate concentrations, special caution should beryllium exercised by vulnerable groups of the population, particularly radical with respiratory diseases.
Hazardous aerial prime indicators
According to the Research Director Εθνικό Αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών (National Observatory of Athens) Konstantinos Lagouvardosconcentration of suspended particles astatine Crete reached highly precocious values.
Meteo.gr aerial prime monitoring stations operating successful the municipality of Rethymno and Adel recorded values approaching 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter.
Meteorologists estimation that Wednesday evening will bring a gradual weakening of this episode, but a caller wave of particulate transport is expected connected the land connected Thursday.
Closed schools and transportation problems
Against the backdrop of a hard atmospheric situation, it was decided to adjacent each schools connected Thursday. Crete. At the aforesaid time, strong winds and mediocre visibility led to disruptions successful aerial traffic and ferry lines.
According to airdrome information “Nikos Kazantzakis” successful Heraklion, visibility successful some hours did not transcend 200 meters. As a result, 7 incoming flights were diverted to different airports and two flights were cancelled. Among those rerouted are planes from Brussels, London, Munich, Frankfurt And Hamburg.
According to the airdrome manager Iakovos Ouranosthe situation is monitored successful existent time. According to him, galore crews preferred to instrumentality oregon spell to alternate airfields without adjacent attempting an approach.
Serious disruptions were besides recorded successful maritime communications. Due to gale unit winds up to 9 points connected the Beaufort scaleand successful Dodecanese successful some places up to 10 pointsevening flights from Piraeus to Crete were cancelled. The prohibition connected ships leaving ports besides continues to apply. Lavrio And Rafina.
In addition, connection from Hair connected Sporadestraffic connected the enactment is disrupted Kavala – Prinosand besides the enactment remains closed Rio – Antirio.
What’s happening connected the islands
On Tinos, Naxos and Syros Residents study a dense particulate curtain combined with rain, which further worsens travel conditions. On Santorini the unusual reddish inheritance implicit the caldera became 1 of the astir noticeable visual symbols of this weather episode.
Visually the representation truly looks astir Martianhowever, down the spectacular images lies a wholly mundane problem: a crisp deterioration successful aerial quality, constricted visibility and disruptions successful transport and schools.
Passengers readying to travel successful the coming hours are advised to interaction section larboard authorities, travel agencies and aerial carriers successful beforehand to corroborate docket changes.
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