Athenians rose on Wednesday to find the Acropolis immersed in an orange haze of dust blown in from the Sahara desert.
Skies over the Greek capital took a Martian hue as dust clouds moved across the Mediterranean.
“It’s one of the most serious episodes of dust and sand concentrations from the Sahara since March 21-22, 2018, when the clouds invaded the island of Crete in particular,” said Kostas Lagouvardos, weather research director at the National Observatory of Athens.
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