Christmas Day weather warning for Canary Islands over 'severe phenomenon' Brit holidaymakers who are spending the festive period in the Canary Islands are being warned of a severe weather phenomenon where visibility can be rapidly reduced.
The national weather agency in Spain has advised about the extreme case of "calima" - which sees billions of particles of dust from Saharan Africa fill the air, transforming the sky with a yellow or red haze.
"The haze in the Canary Islands will cause visibility to be poor, and it is foreseeable that the air quality will worsen considerably," states a local weather forecast.
And according to meteorologists, the calima will "strongly" impact the Canary Islands, particularly its eastern isles, from Christmas Eve.
From the end of Tuesday [December 24], and especially during the early hours and morning of Christmas Day, the skies will be covered in suspended dust.
