×
GreekEnglish

×
  • Politics
  • Diaspora
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Cooking
Monday
08
Dec 2025
weather symbol
Athens 14°C
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • World
  • Diaspora
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Mediterranean Cooking
  • Weather
Contact follow Protothema:
Powered by Cloudevo
> Greece

‘Minerva Red’: Timelapse video of the African dust that ‘choked’ Athens

The video is from the camera of the Athens Observatory in Penteli

Newsroom April 26 03:28

Unusual images were recorded in the past few days in many areas of the country, due to high concentrations of African dust.

In fact, Meteo, presents a timelapse video of the ‘Minerva Red’ Saharan dust transport episode in Athens, on April 23 and 24, 2024.

Watch video:

>Related articles

Improved weather today — where local showers are expected

Papastavrou: The ministerial meeting of the Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the USA group in Washington in April

European Commission handbook depicts the East Aegean islands and the Dodecanese as Turkish

It was the controversial weekend when the African dust ‘choked’ many parts of the country, painting the sky orange and making the atmosphere suffocating.

In the area of Sirte in Libya the shallow low, moving towards Greece, carried very large quantities of African dust, making the air quality very difficult, creating an eerie scene with orange skies.

Ask me anything

Explore related questions

#African dust#athens#Athens Observatory#greece#organge#video#viral#weather
> More Greece

Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news

See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr

> Latest Stories

Family confrontation – Andreas Psicharis sues his father’s widow for 19 works of art of immense value

December 7, 2025

The story of Greece’s trolleybuses: From the first routes to the the last

December 7, 2025

“We are really very close to a peace agreement for Ukraine,” says Trump’s special envoy

December 7, 2025

Dismantling of trolleybus cables begins in Piraeus — Watch the video

December 7, 2025

Armed police raid at Heathrow: Train services suspended, arrests and tear gas reported

December 7, 2025

Mitsotakis: “Farmers will receive every euro they are entitled to — Solutions come through dialogue, not roadblocks”

December 7, 2025

Improved weather today — where local showers are expected

December 7, 2025

The livestock farmer who tearfully bid farewell to his 450 sheep collapses; Hospitalized in Giannitsa with stroke symptoms

December 7, 2025
All News

> Culture

History has treated her unfairly”: The 400-year mystery surrounding Shakespeare’s wife and son

Restoring an overlooked figure and the link to Hamlet through film

December 6, 2025

Christmas with light installations, music, and cinema at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

December 5, 2025

Israel will participate in Eurovision; Spain, the Netherlands & Ireland withdraw

December 4, 2025

Mendoni from Washington: Culture is a connecting and unifying force between the US and Greece

December 4, 2025

Hagia Sophia: At the mercy of…crony contractors, the adventures of the monument of Orthodoxy in Erdogan’s hands

December 3, 2025
Homepage
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY COOKIES POLICY TERM OF USE
Powered by Cloudevo
Copyright © 2025 Πρώτο Θέμα