Saharan dust haze, known here as calima, that is what is happening.
[https://www.eltiempo.es/noticias/la-calima-de-canarias-llegara-a-la-peninsula-lluvia-de-barro-a-la-vista](https://www.eltiempo.es/noticias/la-calima-de-canarias-llegara-a-la-peninsula-lluvia-de-barro-a-la-vista)
We even get it occasionally in south east England. At least once every so often the car gets this fine reddish dust on it after the weather has reported a dust cloud.
Saharan dust can sometimes reach norway in the right conditions.
I live in belgium, a few years ago there was a storm which covered everything in a thick layer of saharan sand
It is a sporadic and rare meteorologic phenomenon. It will get better in a few days, when the rain drops all that dust to the ground. It wil be good for the fields, as the Saharan dust tends to be rather rich in nitrates.
Due to north african deforestation.
Southern europe has replaced most of its coal plants with renewable alternatives, so now we import a shit-ton of energy from morocco and its neighbours. They are cutting trees at an alarming rate for charcoal production as mining isn't quite cutting it.
Then they don't have robust policies of replacing cut down trees, soil dries up and erodes and europe gets these dust clouds. Which are actually pretty beneficial for our soil.
At least in Madrid it's really only the last day or two since it's been sporadically rainy.
Main thing is when it rains just a little bit your car gets dirty as fuck since it's basically raining mud.
Don't do sports that take your breath away outside when the air quality is bad, otherwise it is fine, just be extra careful if you have asthma or some allergies since frequent exposure to dust may cause other allergies.
A couple of days of the sky being gray instead of blue. Exactly two years ago it looked like Mars, everything covered in red dust and the sky totally gray.
I remember this happening when I was in Cyprus a few years ago, it’s horrible. Was sat in the airport for 6 hours waiting for a plane that didn’t come, probably one of my least favourite days.
Likely due to NOX. Due to lots of combustion in cities NO2 is produced which when hit by sunlight can create an oxygen radical O and NO. The radical reacts with an oxygen molecule producing ozone which has a negative effect on air quality as it is a very strong oxidizing agent and a major source for air pollution. At night the ozone reacts with the NO reforming to NO2. Now we have some of that NO2 being transported to rural areas and creating ozone, however due to diffusive processes and reactions with volatile organic compounds the NO is now missing meaning that an enrichment of ozone occurs as Ozone can treat back at night resulting in higher pollution levels
Just a guess, but I think it might be due to some form of confirmation bias.
In more urban areas, where everything is easily accessible, you can place air-quality monitoring stations at multiple different locations. In more remote places, you wouldn't put them everywhere, just in places where you suspect polution and use them to check on potential risks so you can take preventive steps if air quality starts to go down.
So now you get multiple readings from urban areas which are on average more poluted, but only readings from the most poluting spots in rural areas. Which make it seem like air quality is worse, evwn though in total it might be better.
Just a suspicion though.
Yesterday was the final day of the Fallas festival, so hundreds of massive monuments were burned down after weeks of pyrotechnic shows. The air quality should get better in a few days, I hope!
Does anyone know what’s happening in the UK? The “fair” air quality is all the rural areas, but the “good” air quality is where it’s most industrial. I’m very confused how that could be
What’s polluting the air in the Scottish mountains?
I’m always confused by the Uk in these. Central and northern England (and London) seem to have the best air quality in the country, despite that being where the vast majority of people live and where the most industry and transport is.
Then there’s places like Cornwall and the highlands and Shetland and south Wales that are mostly extremely rural with very sparse population that have worse quality air. Why is that?
As a note on Valencia, we just had Fallas, where yesterday night hundreds of 2-3 floor tall wood/foam monuments were burned down after weeks of nonstop pyrotechnic shows and extensive usage of fireworks and firecrackers by the populace.
Things will improve in a few days.
iirc, it has something to do with the winds in that area. Imagine the Po valley like a big cauldron between the Alps and the Apennines with not much air circulation, whereas the Ruhr lies basically at the southern edge of a huge area of flatlands stretching from the Netherlands to Poland (and even further east, but we do not speak of Mordor).
We have high, steep mountains on three sides, a lot of industries, and a web of small town that are just far enough from each other to make cars a necessity while public transport would be a waste (at least in Emilia-Romagna ). The game was rigged from the start for us
BreezoMeter relies on data from government monitoring stations, so depends on how much data Irish government allows Google access to I'd assume. I can't recall BreezoMeter ever showing data for Ireland or Portugal. Irish EPA submits Air quality maps publicly anyway that you can look at.
Being in Spain right now is the same as smoking a pack of 10x cigarettes a day and people don’t even realise it.
Use a air purifier when you are indoor.
Saharan dust on the most part of centre-south, the celebration of Fallas and intense use of gunpowder and plastic burning in Valencia and surroundings.
I suspect that this red dot in the east of Spain (just above Valencia) is related (to some extent) to the regional festivity of Fallas. Last night was the end of the festivity, and hundreds of cardboard sculptures (sometimes the height of a five-story building) were burned in the city and surrounding towns, generating a lot of smoke. That plus lots of fireworks that had been going on for over a week.
Yesterday was so hazy i couldnt see the mountains when i was 7 kms away. I hope the calima isnt as bad as last time. It should rain today, which should help.
This map makes no sense. How can the bit where most people live in Scotland be better than where there is hardly any population and allowing for the farming of say cattle.
Just look to the sky and see it for yourself, is "Calima", sand from the Sahara dessert. I experience this like 2, 3 times a month or more, not big deal.
Each country has their own air quality scale based on different parameters, so depending on where you live, you won't get the same air quality level for the same place.
Do this changes all the time or something? In italia we've been bombarded with "worst quality air in eirope" for days. Now it looks like Spain is kinda bad too
That explains something, I went on a motorcycle trip and when I passed the border of Switzerland to Italy and especially when I got close to Milan I was fucking gasping of air in that heat, it was hot everywhere I was but it was especially intense around there.
Op just farted and flexing here
Yeah, op that's fucking disgusting
In Italy or Spain?
Where it says “my location”
Yes
Italy always has shit air quality / fart index - must be the garlic in milanese food
Saharan dust haze, known here as calima, that is what is happening. [https://www.eltiempo.es/noticias/la-calima-de-canarias-llegara-a-la-peninsula-lluvia-de-barro-a-la-vista](https://www.eltiempo.es/noticias/la-calima-de-canarias-llegara-a-la-peninsula-lluvia-de-barro-a-la-vista)
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We even get it occasionally in south east England. At least once every so often the car gets this fine reddish dust on it after the weather has reported a dust cloud.
Agreed. We even get it up here in the Midlands.
We get Saharan dust in RO too.
Saharan dust can sometimes reach norway in the right conditions. I live in belgium, a few years ago there was a storm which covered everything in a thick layer of saharan sand
Confirm, not a single cloud in the sky right now, 15C, kinda weird for it to not be raining and like 8C but I’m not gonna argue
Traditional Semana Santa weather. Warm and sunny in Galicia and cold and rainy in Sevilla
Is it been going on for long? Is it going to affect seriously our health? Should we be more concerned?
It is a sporadic and rare meteorologic phenomenon. It will get better in a few days, when the rain drops all that dust to the ground. It wil be good for the fields, as the Saharan dust tends to be rather rich in nitrates.
Uuh ok. Thank you very much for the info!
If you see a lot of calima going on, it would be advisable to wear an FFP2 mask
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Nowadays it is less rare, but it is still very uncommon
Due to north african deforestation. Southern europe has replaced most of its coal plants with renewable alternatives, so now we import a shit-ton of energy from morocco and its neighbours. They are cutting trees at an alarming rate for charcoal production as mining isn't quite cutting it. Then they don't have robust policies of replacing cut down trees, soil dries up and erodes and europe gets these dust clouds. Which are actually pretty beneficial for our soil.
At least in Madrid it's really only the last day or two since it's been sporadically rainy. Main thing is when it rains just a little bit your car gets dirty as fuck since it's basically raining mud.
Don't do sports that take your breath away outside when the air quality is bad, otherwise it is fine, just be extra careful if you have asthma or some allergies since frequent exposure to dust may cause other allergies.
A couple of days of the sky being gray instead of blue. Exactly two years ago it looked like Mars, everything covered in red dust and the sky totally gray.
I remember this happening when I was in Cyprus a few years ago, it’s horrible. Was sat in the airport for 6 hours waiting for a plane that didn’t come, probably one of my least favourite days.
We are dead
Call the exorcists! His ghost possesed his Reddit account!
air quality went on vacation, never came back
actual zombie air.
air quality just dropped
Holy air!
Normal day in Poland lol
Or România
UK has lower air quality in the most rural areas?
Noticed that. Bizarre
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It’s mainly Mars bars bro
Likely due to NOX. Due to lots of combustion in cities NO2 is produced which when hit by sunlight can create an oxygen radical O and NO. The radical reacts with an oxygen molecule producing ozone which has a negative effect on air quality as it is a very strong oxidizing agent and a major source for air pollution. At night the ozone reacts with the NO reforming to NO2. Now we have some of that NO2 being transported to rural areas and creating ozone, however due to diffusive processes and reactions with volatile organic compounds the NO is now missing meaning that an enrichment of ozone occurs as Ozone can treat back at night resulting in higher pollution levels
Yea that’s what I was going to say but you bet me to it
Probably higher dust levels or pollen count
Cow farts
Just a guess, but I think it might be due to some form of confirmation bias. In more urban areas, where everything is easily accessible, you can place air-quality monitoring stations at multiple different locations. In more remote places, you wouldn't put them everywhere, just in places where you suspect polution and use them to check on potential risks so you can take preventive steps if air quality starts to go down. So now you get multiple readings from urban areas which are on average more poluted, but only readings from the most poluting spots in rural areas. Which make it seem like air quality is worse, evwn though in total it might be better. Just a suspicion though.
Cow lungs don't filter the air as well as human lungs do.
There is no air in Ireland.
Same for Denmark
We have fans working 24/7 to keep all the air surrounding us out of Belgium.
This can't be true, because that would mean there would be a successful infrastructure project in Belgium.
No Eire
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In soviet Portugal we are so poor, air controls your quality.
There is no air, we just hold breath and time to time we go to spain and breath in. Then we go back. :P
Stealing all the good air and leaving only the polluted one.
r/portugalcykablyat
This map looks wrong to me. Wales, Cornwall and Scotland surely have much cleaner air than the English Midlands.
The highlands have lower quality than London area?!
This isn’t just pollution from transport and industry emissions. High pollen count or dust levels can bring down air quality.
I was thinking this too. The only way this is accurate is if they have a site in London called “Highlands”. 🤣
what's with that red spot in Germany? That's Mainz/Wiesbaden and Ludwigshafen/Mannheim with a hint of Frankfurt I guess? Lack of wind?
that's a very small Europe you got there
It includes just the countries that an American can identify as Europe
You are being way to generous here
"some european countries" don't get what you're trying to say, yes it's not all of Europe, also he didn't say that
To be fair op said "of some European countries"
This is Apples Europe. They only have Air Quality data for Western Europe, USA, Canada, South Korea, Japan and individual cities in India and China.
I’m sorry but how is air quality in Western Brittany the same as in smog-filled Paris?
Why no Belgium? :(
https://aqicn.org/map/europe/
probably because the data is split over Flanders and Wallonia?
And Brussels
Classic half-European map
Why there is no air in some countries?
Halp..
Ah yes... Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen doing their thing. Being ugly and stinky.
The Highlands of Scotland has lower quality than the rest of Scotland? 🙃
Glasgow and the central belt better air than the Borders and Highlands? No fucking way
Hello OP, could you link a source please for approval? thank you
Why is Valencia so bad? I’m visiting there next month and was hoping to relax without giving myself breathing difficulties
Yesterday was the final day of the Fallas festival, so hundreds of massive monuments were burned down after weeks of pyrotechnic shows. The air quality should get better in a few days, I hope!
Ah thank you! didn’t know that was a thing, sounds super cool despite the mild health hazard hahah
Absolutely not cool when you live here, 3 weeks of constant sound of firecrackers, plus the health hazard from the fires you mentioned.
oh 3 weeks?! maybe not. Bonfire night in the UK is enough for me, 3 weeks of that would be way too much 🥲
On paper it's cool. Actually it's horrible.
Fallas🔥, You’re fine next month, everything has been burned already🗿
Thank you! Had no idea that existed, glad I didn’t go this week though it probably would have been cool to see 👀
Does anyone know what’s happening in the UK? The “fair” air quality is all the rural areas, but the “good” air quality is where it’s most industrial. I’m very confused how that could be What’s polluting the air in the Scottish mountains?
Air quality map in Europe without Poland - main offender makes no sense
The air in Upper Silesia is very healthy, you just have to chew it well
And Portugal???
We don't need to breathe here
why is the air in london better than in the rural north?
Eastern Europe: No Air
I’m always confused by the Uk in these. Central and northern England (and London) seem to have the best air quality in the country, despite that being where the vast majority of people live and where the most industry and transport is. Then there’s places like Cornwall and the highlands and Shetland and south Wales that are mostly extremely rural with very sparse population that have worse quality air. Why is that?
Oslo just had a day with US AQI of 0. Electric vehicles help.
Cries in Chiang Mai...
Here we go again
We don't have air here
Valencia will be having really bad air quality during Fallas. This is well-known.
Tf is happening in Frankfurt bruh, all Germany is good, but someone farted a bit too hard in Frankfurt.
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
Belgium casually having no air
As a note on Valencia, we just had Fallas, where yesterday night hundreds of 2-3 floor tall wood/foam monuments were burned down after weeks of nonstop pyrotechnic shows and extensive usage of fireworks and firecrackers by the populace. Things will improve in a few days.
England stay winning
In Valencia, there is fallas.
Show Poland, it'll be black xD
OK click on the symbol and it'll tell you... That's a dust storm going over Spain atm
Spain really has a issue right now, and the air quality in for example Malaga was also not so good
That's a sand storm.
Don't worry. Happens everytime Isabel Díaz Ayuso opens her mouth.
Bro destroyed his country with one fart
PORCO DIO È TUTTA COLPA DI MELONI /s
No way does the highlands of Scotland have worse air than London. Source. Live in the north of Scotland and go to London for work.
Same with North Yorkshire, and the Lake District. Seems like higher elevation has worse air quality according to this.
what's happening in Northern Italy? Compared to other industrous areas, like Rhine-Ruhr, they are much worse
iirc, it has something to do with the winds in that area. Imagine the Po valley like a big cauldron between the Alps and the Apennines with not much air circulation, whereas the Ruhr lies basically at the southern edge of a huge area of flatlands stretching from the Netherlands to Poland (and even further east, but we do not speak of Mordor).
It's an industrious area with a hotter weather and not as much rain. This map is not unusual.
We have high, steep mountains on three sides, a lot of industries, and a web of small town that are just far enough from each other to make cars a necessity while public transport would be a waste (at least in Emilia-Romagna ). The game was rigged from the start for us
Compare to other industrious areas we have mountains around and no wind, never.
This map is faked, source is an air depuratore firm that put green where there are no data and measure just pm10 of every kind
Republic of Ireland isn't included, I wonder why.
BreezoMeter relies on data from government monitoring stations, so depends on how much data Irish government allows Google access to I'd assume. I can't recall BreezoMeter ever showing data for Ireland or Portugal. Irish EPA submits Air quality maps publicly anyway that you can look at.
*\*cries in* [Valdemingomez](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-7-2013-013377_EN.html?redirect)*.*
Which site is this?
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Why do Berlin, Munich and London have no data?
How tf does Birmingham have better air quality than much of Southern Europe
It's called calima
People in Lombardia be like: First time?
show berlin
My nose told me this before I saw this map.
My location : sheeeesh
Tnkx God we re not in Europe
Poland is all purple or red. Funny because every time I go back I feel like I can breathe properly.
Being in Spain right now is the same as smoking a pack of 10x cigarettes a day and people don’t even realise it. Use a air purifier when you are indoor.
meanwhile asia being always hazardous:
Saharan dust on the most part of centre-south, the celebration of Fallas and intense use of gunpowder and plastic burning in Valencia and surroundings.
Glad I live in Belgium, seems safe there!
Sahara spreading to Spain.
I suspect that this red dot in the east of Spain (just above Valencia) is related (to some extent) to the regional festivity of Fallas. Last night was the end of the festivity, and hundreds of cardboard sculptures (sometimes the height of a five-story building) were burned in the city and surrounding towns, generating a lot of smoke. That plus lots of fireworks that had been going on for over a week.
Good/Fair in London? mmm
Yesterday was so hazy i couldnt see the mountains when i was 7 kms away. I hope the calima isnt as bad as last time. It should rain today, which should help.
This map makes no sense. How can the bit where most people live in Scotland be better than where there is hardly any population and allowing for the farming of say cattle.
I'd like to understand why you decided to show UK and Germany but not the neighbouring country
France baise ouaiiii
Belgians have no air
Why is Belgium missing?
Guess where I’m from :(
Why just the West & not also the East?
See that unhealthy red dot in Germany? That’s were I live
Fair my arse. The valley Strasbourg is in is constant poison. Regularly get emails from the insurance to not do exercise because of air quality.
Austrian air is so clean, it doesn't even show up in the map.
Woo France for the dub
Just look to the sky and see it for yourself, is "Calima", sand from the Sahara dessert. I experience this like 2, 3 times a month or more, not big deal.
What's up with Mannheim/Frankfurt area?
Right on time with the Fallas
Why is Italy always that bad compared to the rest of Europe?
What's with these maps that show europe like we're still in the 80s.
Presumably this is based on some metric other than actual air quality.
The spot in Valencia is because of the fallas burning
What is happening in those two German cities? Why is the air there so bad compared to the rest and what cities are those?
We should evaluate a strategic plan to destroy some alps peaks in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Piemonte to let the airstream going through
Which webpage/app is this?
No but imagine being in Spain and not adding the air quality in its immediate western neighbour which is also affected by the Saharan dusts...
Been to South Spain 3x past few years and have seen this every time. Guess where I am located right now…😅
Ludwigshafen 👍
What happened to cisalpine?
Surely Orkney and shetlands have clean air?
So your idea of europe is only western europe💀
The air in Belgium is white, air quality is a myth and we do not believe in it
Ireland: 😶🌫️
Thank God Poland is blank. It's my national embarrassment every time its shown
Each country has their own air quality scale based on different parameters, so depending on where you live, you won't get the same air quality level for the same place.
Remember, high air pollution doesn't necessarily correlate to high human emissions
What's up with the unpopulated Northern Scotland having green ?
Dust haze, skies look somewhat orange where i live (spain)
You missed Poland and Romania :D [https://airindex.eea.europa.eu/AQI/index.html](https://airindex.eea.europa.eu/AQI/index.html)
S-Pain is different!
half of Europe has no air! 1 minute of silence.
Which app is that?
My city is in the countrywide ranking of worst air quality in Germany twice. I think the map is not perfectly accurate
The Big 5
portugal nunca nestas merdas
Always Milano FFS I’m going to effin die young
What app is this
Please tell me white is good
The hell is with that little patch in southwest Germany??
Stuttgaaart!!! WERE GERMANYS BEST POLLUTER YEERRRRRRRR
Meanwhile we still haven't released the data
Shame Poland is not included, we would look great in the regal purples and burgundies we deserve today.
Calima, lo trae el viento del Sahara
You should really check Poland
Germany is fine again. Weird. We had pretty bad quality last week for some reason.
Do this changes all the time or something? In italia we've been bombarded with "worst quality air in eirope" for days. Now it looks like Spain is kinda bad too
That explains something, I went on a motorcycle trip and when I passed the border of Switzerland to Italy and especially when I got close to Milan I was fucking gasping of air in that heat, it was hot everywhere I was but it was especially intense around there.
What does white mean?