Canarias has lived a few days of intense heat that already begins to remit. A person who took a plane last Monday, February 13, from the airport Cesar Manrique of Lanzarote has shared a video showing the density of this episode of suspended dust.
“I live in Lanzarote and I have seen strong calima more times, but It is impressive to see how much land there was and how far it went, although the pilots are already used to it. For them, it’s as if it were night,” says the author of the videoJoaquín Marquinez, as reported by La Voz de Lanzarote.
The time in the Canary archipelago change of third this Wednesday with yellow warnings for strong winds in the summits of La Gomera and Tenerife of a northern component, which will drag cloudiness from the Atlantic to the north of the islands of greater relief, which will cause light to moderate rains that will be felt mainly in the early and late hours of the day. All this after another delivery of calima, the one this Tuesday, which for the second day literally buried the islands of the eastern province.
But above all to Gran Canariawith slightly cleaner skies in Lanzarote and Fuerteventurasince in the station that the Government of the Canary Islands Located in the Central Market of The Gran Canarian palms At twelve noon, 1,132 micrograms per cubic meter of air of PM10 particles were detected, compared to the 50 micrograms established by the WHO as recommended for health. That noon peak was reduced late in the day to the still very high 502 micrograms per cubic meter of air at nine at night.
A dust in suspension in any case in withdrawal for a Wednesday in which the maximum temperatures are also expected to drop significantly, which this past Tuesday easily exceeded 23 degrees Celsius in Cross portin Tenerife, and cupcutin the palm islandfacing minimum temperatures that sank to two degrees below zero in the Canadas of the Teideor up to a slightly more benevolent 2.4 degrees Celsius in Plains of La Pezwithin the Gran Canaria municipality of La Vega de San Mateo.
