Bernard Burton wrote in message ...
:Interesting report from you. The following images show the dust/sand plume
riginating for Algeria, both yesterday and today. I would say the plume
:looks unusually dense.
:http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1346-d-med.JPG
:http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1356-e-sah.JPG

Bejaia on the Algerian coast
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/DAAE.html

28°C in the early hours of Saturday; gale to storm force SW wind; 27°C for
much of the day with blowing sand. Tizi-Ouzou on the coast west of Bejaia
reported 28.8°C.

Palermo on Sicily http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LICJ.html

24 to 25°C on Friday night and Saturday morning with a southerly wind;
sharp fall in temperature on Saturday afternoon when the wind changed
direction; up to 25°C again in the evening when the southerly resumed.
Max. temp. 25.9°C.

Colin Youngs
Brussels