What happened to the weather .. The sands of the Algerian desert travel thousands of kilometers and sweep Paris and the Levant receive snow

Weather of Arabia - In an event that is not frequently repeated, sands from the African Sahara traveled thousands of kilometers from Africa to make their way towards the European continent, sweeping Spain and Portugal to reach France on Tuesday 15-03-2022, and the daytime of some cities of these European countries turned into a dark night. On the contrary, the Levant is witnessing the effects of a polar air mass, resulting in extremely low temperatures and very cold weather, and snowfalls in the various highlands of the Levant.

The Arab Weather Center had previously warned, through its periodic reports, of the possibility of Algeria and parts of western Europe being exposed to a sandstorm, following the deepening of the Atlantic depression over the Kingdom of Morocco, after which southern winds were accompanied by strong gusts that exceeded 100 km / h, which decreased and disappeared. As a result, the extent of horizontal visibility in large parts of Algeria.

The pioneers of social networking sites across various platforms took pictures of the effects of sandstorms, and the attached picture shows from the Pyrenees mountains in southern France, where the sand is covered with heavy snow and how the snow became scattered in the African sands.

The French capital, Paris, was not spared the direct effects of the sandstorm, which turned the capital's sky yellow.