Dust and shifting weather patterns bring temperature swings

Weak high pressure is affecting the area, whilst weak low pressure is expected from Monday. Dust will be suspended in the atmosphere at intervals.

Today, weather will initially be mainly fine, though it will gradually become partly cloudy and at intervals locally cloudy, whilst isolated rain cannot be ruled out, mainly in mountainous areas.

Thin mist or fog may form locally in the mountains. Winds will blow from the northeast to southeast, light to moderate, 3 to 4 Beaufort. The sea will be generally slight and temporarily rough in the southwest, west and north.

Temperatures will reach around 16 degrees inland, around 18 on the coast and around 8 degrees in the higher mountains.

On Monday the weather will be partly cloudy and at intervals mainly cloudy, whilst isolated rain cannot be ruled out.

On Tuesday, weather will be mainly cloudy with isolated rain, whilst in the evening, a disturbance from the west will begin to affect the island with local rain and isolated thunderstorms. Snow or sleet is expected in the higher mountains.

On Wednesday weather will remain mainly cloudy, whilst local rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected at intervals, as well as snow or sleet in the higher mountains.

Temperature on Monday will see a slight rise, to fluctuate above normal seasonal levels, however by Wednesday it will gradually see a slight drop, to fluctuate near the average climatological values for the season.

The snow height at Troodos, at the time of the bulletin’s issue, was 18 centimetres.