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| Courtesy Mairead Sweeney Malone |
Mairead says it looks like rain but is actually dust from the Sahara. Her photograph shows the difficulty. We’ve wondered ourselves, a bit more obvious for Mairead who lives at the bottom (southwest end) of the Karpaz peninsula and gets somewhat different weather from ours. Actually, often a little cooler, windier and wetter. She has also been receiving an unwelcome covering of dust, which we haven’t noticed here although others a little to the east of us claim to have. And there are certainly dust warnings across the island, suggesting that one refrain from the kind of exercise I’m disinclined to indulge in anyway and warning those with breathing difficulties to take precautions.
