Red-orange Sahara dust coats Spain, makes it hard to breathe
By JOSEPH WILSON
Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hot air from the Sahara Desert has swirled over the Mediterranean Sea and coated Spain with red-orange dust, prompting Spain to issue extremely poor air quality warnings Tuesday for Madrid and a large swath of the country. Spain’s national air quality index listed the capital and large parts of the southeast coast.as “extremely unfavorable” — its worst rating. Many Spaniards awoke Tuesday to find a layer of red-orange dust covering terraces, streets and cars. The weather service forecast says the dust will accumulate through Wednesday and could reach as far as the Netherlands and northwestern Germany. The dust even coated Portugal and Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
