Poseidon Weather
I’m keeping an eye on the weather today (Tuesday). There was a news announcement on Monday saying a great cloud of Saharan dust was coming or way. This comes along at least once per year, and locally, we call it ‘red rain.’ When the cloud is up there, and the rain comes down here, you find the dust over everything; washing, courtyard, rooves… When it’s up there and falling without rain, it can clog you up as much as it clogs the shelves. So, I went to the new-look Poseidon weather site and discovered that since it upgraded its pages, it now offers a ‘dust’ forecast. It might have done this before, and I never noticed, but I saw it yesterday and received this forecast.
That accounts for the strange colour of the sky and the covering of cloud. We did have rain overnight on Monday, but I’ve not been out there yet to see if it has dried to dust. Whatever. We’d brought the washing in, and today, the mains water should be coming in, so we can hose off the few plants we have in our courtyard.
Today’s photos are from a while ago, but still this year, and give you an idea of the weather we get during the winter months. It’s warm at the moment too. I commuted to work yesterday (three steps across the porch), and it was raining, but there was no need to put the heater on. The courtyard temperature read 19 degrees on Monday afternoon, and I’ve not had to sit under a blanket for a while. The weather is unsettled but not intolerable, and the island remains very quiet as lockdown goes on. We now have quick home tests available from the pharmacies, I am told. I must go to the harbour to check the post office sometime this week, and that will be the first time in weeks I have been below 500 feet, or whatever altitude the village is at. I wonder if it tells me that on the Poseidon weather channel? I must go and look, and if you want to see the weather and conditions down here in the south-east Aegean, here’s the link.
