According to meteorologists, an air mass saturated with Saharan dust particles has arrived in Romania and is spreading from the territory of Moldova to the south of the country.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) announced on Thursday that the general circulation of air from the east to the west-southwest has contributed to the transfer of an air mass containing particles of Saharan dust of not very high concentration.

According to the quoted source, the concentrations of Saharan dust are not very high because the air mass containing them was caused by the general circulation of air from Asia over the Black Sea, the Republic of Moldova, southern Russia and Ukraine and only later over Romania.

“Since August 23, first in the region of Moldova, then spreading to the south of Romania, the general circulation of air from the east to the west-southwest contributed to the transfer of the air mass containing particles of Saharan dust of a not very high level. concentration.

Considering that the atmospheric pressure remained relatively high in the north-eastern part of Romania and that this field of relatively high pressure occupies almost the entire north-north-eastern part of the continent, on the one hand, the easterly air circulation at ground level contributed and, on the other hand, the placement or concentration of these Saharan dust particles in the air layers in the immediate vicinity of the ground (since the field of high atmospheric pressure is characterized by the movement of air vertically, from top to bottom),” the ASM reported.