
A large amount of sand from the Sahara has blanketed the Swiss sky since Friday, dramatically reducing visibility and giving sunlight a yellow tint over much of the country.
"The arrival of sand from the Sahara leads to a decrease in sunlight and visibility. There is also an increase in the concentrations of fine particles,” the Swiss meteorological service MétéoSwiss points out in a message to X.
The dust amounted to about 180,000 tons, according to the calculation, meteorologist Roman Broly of SRF Meteo told public radio.
The dust of the Sahara desert has reached Lombardy and Milan on Saturday, March 30. In the images captured from Sesto San Giovanni, the city's skyline is blurred by a kind of yellow dust.
Today dust has covered the Albanian sky.
Combined with the high temperatures, this situation will create the sensation of "suffocating" air, although this situation has been repeated many times in the past over the country and is not a new phenomenon.