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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sean Murphy

Irish motorists face Saharan red dust shower as usually rare weather event to strike for second time in months

Motorists are facing another shower of Saharan red dust covering their cars as the usually rare weather event strikes for the second time in months.

It was only in March past that drivers last found their vehicles blanketed in the coarse red sand-like dust.

Forecasters are now predicting another occurrence of the phenomenon that mixes desert dust with rain and leads to showers looking red – which is dubbed blood rain.

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