מה קורה מסביב לעולם בפברואר
בפברואר קורים 2475 דברים עונתיים ב1314 יעדים: 266 מופעי טבע, 1082 תנאים עונתיים, 425 פסטיבלים ותאריכי תרבות, 357 חגים המוניים ו345 עונות סיכון. העונות שעושות הכי הרבה עבודה החודש: סגירה מחוץ לעונה, קרנבל ועונת היובש. כל רשומה מקשרת לפירוט האקלים המלא של אותו מקום בפברואר.
דברים שכדאי לנסוע בשבילם
פריחה, שלכת, לווייתנים, האור עצמו — החלונות הקצרים ששווה לבנות סביבם חודש שלם.
The herds drop most of their calves on the short-grass plains at Ndutu, in the conservation area's western corner, and the predators concentrate on them.
Close to half a million calves drop in a three-week burst on the short-grass plains around Ndutu, and every predator in the ecosystem is there for it.
Boats leave the harbour before dawn for the shelf edge an hour or two out, and sightings are close to routine between December and March.
Plankton in the straits brings reef mantas onto the cleaning stations around Dampier and Arborek, densest in the first months of the year.
גם בלבואן באג'ו באינדונזיה
The overwintering colonies at El Rosario and Sierra Chincua sit two to three hours east of the city.
Sitting on the Arctic Circle, the lights are a regular event rather than a rare one from late August to April.
Dark enough to see them from roughly September to mid-April, cloud permitting, which is the part nobody can book.
Okinawa's cherry is the deep pink hikanzakura and it opens in January, two months before the mainland.
The plain behind the city goes white and pink for about a month in late winter, usually peaking in the first half of February.
For about two weeks in mid-February the last sun hits Horsetail Fall and the water glows orange for ten minutes.
מקור: nps.gov
Thousands of plum trees flower around Dazaifu Tenmangu, half an hour from central Fukuoka, from mid-February, with the sacred Tobiume tree first.
מקור: dazaifutenmangu.or.jp
The world's largest single flower opens in the forest above the park headquarters for three to five days at a time in the dry months.
Humpbacks calve in the shallow water round the Kerama islands from the new year, and the boats out of Naha and Zamami run daily through the season.
מקור: visitokinawajapan.com
Olive ridleys come ashore on the beaches north and south of town through the first months of the year.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The Tanneron hills behind Cannes go yellow with mimosa in winter, and neighbouring Mandelieu-la-Napoule holds its Fete du Mimosa with flower parades in mid-February.
מקור: routedumimosa.com
Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve in Samana Bay, and the environment ministry opens and closes the watching season by decree each year.
Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve and court in the bay and the season is fixed by law from 15 January to 30 March.
The short grass plains around Ndutu and the southern Serengeti, reached on safari from Arusha, fill with newborn wildebeest calves and the predators that follow them; camps here book out well before the February peak.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Resplendent quetzals nest along the Sendero Los Quetzales and the flanks of Baru through these months, when the males hold territory near the cavities and a guide can usually put you on one before breakfast.
The tail of the dive season at Richelieu Rock and Koh Bon, when the plankton is up and the big animals follow it.
Low elevations along Badwater Road go first in February and March and the higher canyons follow into April, but only after a wet autumn and winter.
The hills are green for exactly one part of the year, and the lupine, poppies and Indian paintbrush follow the winter rain from late February.
The low Colorado desert around Cottonwood flowers first, in late February, and the higher Mojave side follows into April.
גם בהפארק הלאומי ביג בנד בארצות הברית
The Zambezi fills from late February and peaks in April, when the spray soaks you on the footbridge and the falls vanish inside their own cloud.
Millions of birds cross here because it is the narrowest point of the strait.
The Zambezi crests around April and the spray goes several hundred metres up, visible from a long way off.
On the three nights around each full moon while the river is up, both parks open after dark and the spray throws a moonbow.
מקור: zimparks.org.zw
Roma, Condesa and the avenues out to San Angel go purple for six weeks, usually from the end of February.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The lagoon fills with wintering waders from October: flamingos on the salt pans, spoonbills, avocets and the resident storks nesting on every chimney by February.
Tens of thousands of monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus grove at Natural Bridges from mid-October, hanging in a shape that looks like dead leaves until the sun hits them.
מקור: parks.ca.gov
Monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus at the Pacific Grove sanctuary from late October to about the start of March, peaking around the turn of the year.
Tens of thousands of starlings turn over the Palace Pier at dusk through the winter before dropping into the ironwork to roost.
The boats run out of Mirissa, three hours south, from November to April, and December to March is when the sea is calm enough to see anything.
Rain over the whole upper basin reaches the falls with a lag, and flow is usually heaviest from November to March, around February at its peak.
Palearctic migrants arrive with the short rains and stay into April, which is when the national park, the Athi plains and the Rift lakes an hour away hold the most species.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Around three hundred black-necked cranes spend the winter on the marsh at Phobjikha, and the valley keeps its power lines underground for them.
Zebra and springbok drop their young as the new grass comes up, the plains game shifts west, and the predators go with them.
…ועוד 183 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
מצב המקום
מונסון, עונת יובש, מעליות פתוחות, ים חם מספיק — מה שמזג האוויר באמת עושה.
The Zanskar river freezes hard enough to walk for a few weeks in deep winter, and permits and a registered agency are required.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The Siq and the Treasury are lit by candle bags five evenings a week, Sunday to Thursday, ticketed separately from the day pass and not included in it.
מקור: visitpetra.jo
Operators fly at sunrise only, from around the Thadingyut full moon to the first week of April, and stand down for the rains.
מקור: balloonsoverbagan.com
Sculptors from several countries carve on the island in Jelgava, a short train ride south-west of Riga, over a weekend in early February.
מקור: latvia.travel
Charred spring onions eaten by hand with romesco, in farm restaurants out towards the Emporda.
גם בברצלונה בספרד
The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.
Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.
The big-wave contest is called on 24 to 48 hours' notice when the forecast clears about twelve metres, so the town can go from empty to sold out inside a day between October and March.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The heritage and culture festival out at Al Wathba runs from the start of November to late March, with country pavilions and fireworks most nights.
מקור: mediaoffice.abudhabi
The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.
מקור: therinkatppgplace.com
Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.
The high lakes set solid from about the turn of the year, and the road out to Pangong runs on cleared snow when it runs at all.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.
מקור: visitstockholm.com
The spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.
מקור: pressoffice.gov.bz
The open-air pavilion park reopens in mid-October and runs to late May, which is as good a marker as any for when Dubai becomes an outdoor city again.
מקור: globalvillage.ae
The short break between the two rainy seasons.
The grapes for icewine are left on the vine and picked at night once it holds below minus eight, usually in January.
מקור: niagarawinefestival.com
The half-hour canal trips run daily from March to mid-November.
מקור: visitbruges.be
Long-stay visitors from the Midwest and Canada take the condos by the month and the beaches are otherwise empty.
גם בקלירווטר, פנסקולה, מירטל ביץ' ועוד 1 בארצות הברית
The state fixes the dates: four weeks of legally regulated discounting from the second Wednesday of January.
מקור: economie.gouv.fr
Two of the Messe's biggest trade fairs, Heimtextil in mid-January and Ambiente around the turn of January and February, bring tens of thousands of buyers.
A good share of the summer-house restaurants and galleries shut after New Year and do not reopen until Golden Week.
Carvers from around Japan work through a late-January weekend in the castle park, and the finished ice sculptures are lit up in front of the keep on the Sunday morning before they soften.
מקור: go-nagano.net
International ice carvers compete along Whyte Avenue with an ice bar and fire pits outside, an Old Strathcona tradition since 2003 recently rebranded as Chiseled.
מקור: iceonwhyte.ca
The world's largest toy trade fair takes the city's hotel beds for five days around the start of February.
מקור: spielwarenmesse.de
The Ministry of Culture shuts the whole route for February every year for maintenance of the steps, bridges and campsites.
גם באויאנטאיטמבו בפרו
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The gulf beaches and the harbour are properly swimmable from January into April, and the water is at its warmest well after the school holidays have emptied them.
The beach huts are boarded and the seafront kiosks and cafés cut their hours or close for the winter.
מקור: bcpcouncil.gov.uk
The avanto — a hole cut in the ice beside a sauna — is what a Helsinki winter is actually for, and the public places are busiest now.
The overcast lifts and Lima decamps to the beach towns south of the city at weekends.
The park office shuts all six routes up the volcano for the wettest quarter every year, on landslide and lightning grounds, and reopens them in April.
מקור: en.tempo.co
The water is only really swimmable in January and February, and it stays that way into early March once the crowds have gone.
Cold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.
The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.
The trade-wind months, when the rain comes in short bursts rather than by the day and the lagoon on the west side is at its clearest for snorkelling and diving the Grotto.
Storms build over the altiplano through the southern summer, heaviest in February, and the roads up to El Tatio and the high lagoons are shut for a day or two when they do.
Rain here is a handful of storms rather than a season, but a big one cuts the Sesriem road, runs the canyon and puts grass on the dune streets within a week.
January to May is the dry half: the tracks into the rainforest reserve stay passable, the water over Buccoo Reef clears, and the Atlantic side calms down enough to swim.
גם בפורט אוף ספיין בטרינידד וטובגו
…ועוד 870 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
פסטיבלים ותרבות
הפסטיבלים שמקום מפורסם בזכותם, והשבועות שבהם הרחוב שייך להם.
A silver chariot is walked from the city to Batu Caves and something over a million people climb the 272 steps behind it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Two and a half weeks of masks ending on Shrove Tuesday.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Ten days of satirical choirs singing in the streets of the old town, judged first in a month-long contest at the Gran Teatro Falla.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The city stops for six days from Weiberfastnacht to Ash Wednesday, with the Rosenmontag parade the biggest in Germany.
מקור: cologne-tourism.com
Ten days of ice palace, night parades and caribou drunk out of a plastic cane, in the coldest fortnight of the year.
מקור: carnaval.qc.ca
The largest carnival in Spain after Cadiz takes the capital for a fortnight, with the main parade at midweek and street parties that run until dawn.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A week of monumental snow and ice sculptures across Odori Park and Susukino, in the coldest fortnight of the year.
מקור: sapporo.travel
The city stops for the best part of a week.
גם בסלבדור, פלוריאנופוליס, איליה גראנדה ועוד 4 בברזיל
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight of float parades and flower battles on the Promenade and Place Massena, running at the same time as Menton's lemon festival half an hour along the coast.
מקור: nicecarnaval.com
A three-week festival ending in the parade up Oxford Street on a Saturday night, which shuts the eastern approaches to the centre and fills every bed in Darlinghurst.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A month of open-access shows in tents and temporary venues around the East End.
מקור: adelaidefringe.com.au
The city runs its own lantern displays for a fortnight after Lunar New Year, and Pingxi up the branch line releases sky lanterns on two announced nights.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The season opens on Twelfth Night and builds for weeks; the parades that matter run the eleven days before Fat Tuesday, and the date moves with Easter.
מקור: mardigrasneworleans.com
Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
On one Sunday in January all of Poland holds a charity finale, and Gdansk joins with concerts, collectors with red-heart stickers on every corner and a Light to Heaven firework at eight.
מקור: wosp.org.pl
Parades every Sunday from Epiphany, growing until the five days at Mardi Gras.
מקור: fr.wikipedia.org
Weeks before the street carnival, chirigotas and comparsas compete nightly at the Gran Teatro Falla from early January to a final in February.
מקור: codigocarnaval.com
The state fair in Leon, about an hour away, runs from early January into February: livestock and craft halls, bullfights, fairground rides, fireworks and big-name concerts.
מקור: guanajuato.mx
Sunday parades from early January build to five days that stop the town: burlesque weddings on the Monday, red devils on Shrove Tuesday, black and white on Ash Wednesday, and Vaval burned at dusk.
מקור: martinique.org
Three weeks of tennis in the middle of the city, and the point at which Melbourne is at its fullest and most expensive.
מקור: ausopen.com
Two and a half weeks of folk and roots music across twenty-odd venues in the worst fortnight of the Scottish winter, which is precisely the point.
מקור: celticconnections.com
The women's speed races come to the Olympia delle Tofane most Januaries.
מקור: fis-ski.com
Tamil Mauritians walk to the riverside temples carrying wooden cavadee frames after ten days of fasting, cheeks and tongues pierced.
גם בפור לואי במאוריציוס
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Eight days at the Shiva temple on Durbar Hall Ground: caparisoned elephants lined up for the evening processions, panchari melam and fireworks.
מקור: keralatourism.org
A month of installations and light works through the oasis and the old town, timed for the coldest and clearest weeks.
מקור: experiencealula.com
Three weeks of snow sculpture on Banff Avenue, skijoring down the main street and free events through the deadest, coldest part of the winter.
מקור: banfflakelouise.com
The world championship opens here in January, but the stages are on ice in the mountains behind rather than in the principality.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Four weeks of comedy, circus and cabaret in spiegeltents around the city and Northbridge, at the hottest time of the year, which is why so much of it starts after dark.
מקור: fringeworld.com.au
The midwinter feasts run through the old month of Thorri: soured ram, fermented shark, and a room of people singing.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Buttermilk hosts the winter X Games over a long weekend in late January, free to spectators and hard on the town's beds.
מקור: aspensnowmass.com
The weeks before Lent, when the valley villages bring out masked runs with bells and switches and the city holds its own parade on the Tuesday.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Rosa Khutor's flagship winter gathering combines ski and snowboard competitions, concerts and an apres-ski village, usually late January into early February.
מקור: rosakhutor.ru
The pre-carnival bloco that is Maceio's real carnival day: a dawn-to-afternoon parade along the Ponta Verde and Pajucara seafront a week or so before Carnival, drawing crowds in the hundreds of thousands.
מקור: agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br
Around nine days in late January when dozens of hot-air balloons lift off over the snowy Pays-d'Enhaut, about an hour from Montreux on the scenic MOB line.
מקור: festivaldeballons.ch
A silver chariot is pulled from Little India up to the Waterfall Temple over three days, with kavadi bearers, coconut smashing and a crowd well into six figures.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Snow-and-ice stages on the forest roads out of town in late January, run since the 1960s and used by the world's rally drivers as winter practice.
מקור: arcticrally.fi
A week of concerts around Mozart's birthday on 27 January, in the halls he actually played.
מקור: salzburg.info
A barefoot procession of kavadi carriers crosses the city from Serangoon Road to Tank Road, beginning before dawn.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The fair of miniatures opens at noon on 24 January and runs for weeks: you buy a tiny house, a tiny truck or a tiny degree certificate, have it blessed, and wait a year.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
…ועוד 306 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
חגים שמציפים מקום
חגים המוניים: רכבות מלאות, חנויות סגורות, השבועיים היקרים של השנה.
Chinatown closes Yaowarat Road for two nights of lion dances, shrine queues and food stalls, and half the city's Thai-Chinese families are in it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
China's week-long national holiday for the Lunar New Year.
גם בג'יוג'איגואו, שיאן, צ'נגדו ועוד 19 בהרפובליקה העממית של סין
מקור: china-briefing.com
Seollal, the Lunar New Year, is a three-day public holiday when much of Korea travels to family homes.
גם בפוסאן, סיאול, טגו ועוד 6 בקוריאה הדרומית
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The dragon parade weaves from Oxford Road through the city to Chinatown on the nearest Sunday, with a weekend of food stalls, lanterns and performances around it.
מקור: visitmanchester.com
The oldest Chinatown in the world does dragon dances down Ongpin and closes the streets to traffic for the day.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Port Louis has the oldest Chinatown in the Indian Ocean and marks it properly: firecrackers down Royal Street, wax cakes sold out of the shophouses, and a lion dance through the market.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Taiwan's longest holiday.
גם בפארק הלאומי קנטינג, טאיפיי, חוואליין ועוד 3 בטאיוואן
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Eleven street markets across the districts sell peach branches, kumquats and narcissus in the last days before the new year, trading until the small hours of new year's eve.
מקור: eguangzhou.gov.cn
The one month a year the old city cooks haleem, sold from clay ovens outside every bakery around Charminar from late afternoon.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The ten days between the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 return and the fall of the Shah's government are marked nationwide with parades, exhibitions and street decorations, closing with a mass rally on 11 February.
מקור: fa.wikipedia.org
Government offices and most shops close for several days, families go home, and the archery grounds fill from the morning onwards.
מקור: bhutan.travel
The national day is commemorated at the treaty grounds up the road, with the dawn service, waka on the water and a few days of politics and speeches.
מקור: waitangi.org.nz
Three days that matter more in this settlement than in most: monastery dances at the main temple, families in new clothes, and half the Bhagsu cafes shut because their staff are off.
מקור: tibet.net
The Tibetan new year is a family holiday rather than a spectacle: pilgrims walk the Barkhor before dawn, monasteries hold masked cham dances, and a good share of restaurants and shops close for several days.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The three-day holiday at the end of Ramadan, often stretched into a week off, sends Turkish families on the road and Pamukkale is an easy stop.
גם בספרנבולו בטורקיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A military parade and flag-raising at dawn on 24 February in the coldest week of the year, and shops and museums shut for the day.
מקור: visitestonia.com
Melbourne's Chinatown marks Lunar New Year with lion and dragon parades, market stalls, and firecracker displays along Little Bourke and Russell Streets, extending to the Lantern Festival; one of Australia's largest Lunar New Year celebrations, with timing that shifts each year.
Two weeks of clan-house open houses and temple queues, ending at Chap Goh Meh when unmarried women throw oranges into the sea at the Esplanade.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The lunar new year is three days of visiting elders, buuz by the hundred and dairy-white food.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Daytime cafés and many restaurants close, offices work short hours, and the city comes alive after the sunset cannon with iftar tables set up in the street.
גם באלכסנדריה, דהב, El Gouna ועוד 7 במצרים
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Every Friday in Lent, church halls, fire stations and bars across the city serve fish sandwiches with pierogies and haluski.
מקור: visitpittsburgh.com
Street bazaars set up across the city every afternoon of the fast and are the best eating of the year.
גם בפננג, ג'והור באהרו במלזיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The morning Eid al-Fitr prayer in Small Heath Park draws tens of thousands, the largest gathering of its kind in Europe, and the roads around the park shut for a few hours.
מקור: greenlanemasjid.org
From the December poya to Vesak the steps up Sri Pada are lit and the tea stalls on them are open, and pilgrims climb through the night.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
This is the north's family beach and Santiago arrives for all of January and February: the Avenida del Mar is bumper to bumper and Elqui's small hotels sell out.
Chile, Argentina and Brazil are all on holiday and the village of two thousand takes several times that.
Branches of pink đào are sold off the back of bicycles and motorbikes across the old quarter in the fortnight before the lunar new year, and families carry whole trees home on a scooter.
Restaurants and small shops shut for several days and staff go home to the countryside, while the riverfront fills for the flower street and the fireworks.
גם במפרץ הא לונג, האנוי, הואה ועוד 12 בוייטנאם
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The regions take their two weeks in rotation from mid-January to the end of February, so six weeks of school holidays land here back to back.
מקור: discoverzakopane.com
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore drive up for the cool air and the single mountain road cannot take it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Three public holidays, a night parade in Tsim Sha Tsui and fireworks over the harbour on the second day.
מקור: gov.hk
Malaysian and Singaporean visitors come in on the Langkawi ferry for the long break and the small island fills.
גם בפוקט בתאילנד
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Half the city drives home to Ipoh and Penang, shophouse kitchens close for days, and the malls run lion dances on loop.
גם בלנגקאווי, ג'והור באהרו, קוטה קינבאלו ועוד 3 במלזיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Two public days when hawker stalls and family businesses shut, and a fortnight when Chinatown is impassable in the evening.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The whole of western Taiwan drives up for the holiday week.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Uzbekistan is relaxed about the fast and restaurants stay open, but the old town's day reorganises itself around iftar and the tea houses only fill after sunset.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Italy takes its settimana bianca in February and Cortina is where Milan and Venice take theirs.
…ועוד 152 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
עונות סיכון שכדאי להכיר
לא תחזיות — העונות שבהן הסיכון קיים. רוב השבועות עוברים בשקט.
Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.
גם בלואיוויל בארצות הברית
מקור: weather.gov
River-plate humidity on top of the heat, and the porteños who can afford to have gone to the coast.
מקור: argentina.gob.ar
The peak of the wet season is also when the canals back up and whole districts go under for a day or two.
Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.
גם בבוזמן בארצות הברית
מקור: en.wikivoyage.org
Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Wadi Musa sits high enough to take snow in some winters, most recently in February 2024, which can shut the site for a day or two while the Siq and the Monastery steps are icy.
מקור: jordan-spirit.com
A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.
מקור: weather.gov
The Urubamba runs high through the wet months and a huaico takes out a stretch of track most years, usually towards Hidroelectrica.
מקור: infobae.com
One or two decaying tropical systems reach the upper North Island most summers.
מקור: metservice.com
The Bavarian avalanche service rates these mountains daily through the winter, and the danger on steep ground climbs again as the temperature comes up from February into April.
Phase 2 and the bowls above it shut for days after heavy snow, and a local advisory goes up most mornings through the winter.
מקור: gulmargac.in
This is among the snowiest and windiest cities in the country, and a single storm shut it entirely for a week in 2020.
גם בהליפקס בקנדה
מקור: weather.gc.ca
Saharan dust blows across from Africa a few times each winter and spring, dropping visibility to a few hundred metres and occasionally grounding flights.
גם בלנסרוטה, לאס פאלמאס דה גראן קנריה בספרד
מקור: aemet.es
Agricultural fires north and west of the city put a lid of smoke over Bangkok through the late dry season.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Field and forest fires fill the valley with smoke that the surrounding hills hold in place, and the city regularly tops the world's live pollution rankings in March.
גם בצ'יאנג ראי, פאי בתאילנד
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Late winter rain on frozen ground puts the river over its banks most years, and the low riverfront roads and Sawyer Point paths go under first.
מקור: weather.gov
The grass hillsides above Kagman and out towards Marpi burn most dry seasons, largely from deliberate fires, and the smoke hangs under the trade wind on still mornings.
מקור: weather.gov
A fringe of green weed, locally lumot, grows along the shallows in the hot months and is raked off each morning.
Saharan dust blows north over Andalusia most often in spring, turning the sky orange and leaving the pistes pink.
מקור: aemet.es
Field and forest fires across northern Laos fill the valley with smoke and the far bank of the Mekong disappears for weeks.
גם בפקסה, ואנג ויינג בלאוס
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The whole town sits inside the national park, so a bad fire week means smoke, closed tracks and, on the worst days, a closed highway.
גם בפרת', הובארט, מלבורן באוסטרליה
מקור: rfs.nsw.gov.au
Autumn and winter lows cancel the inter-island ferries, the helicopter and the flights into Vagar, sometimes for two days together.
מקור: visittorshavn.fo
The city sits in a bowl with the Alps on three sides, and winter inversions trap particulates for days.
גם במילאנו באיטליה
מקור: regione.piemonte.it
Rain over the mountains behind town runs off bare rock and crosses the roads out to Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea.
גם בים המלח בירדן
מקור: en.wikivoyage.org
Rare and violent: a storm over the mountains sends water down the wadis and across the coast road, cutting the runs to Nuweiba and St Catherine for a day.
מקור: ema.gov.eg
Storms build over the reef most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and intersections under water for an hour.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Storms come off the Magaliesberg most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and half an hour of water the stormwater drains cannot take.
גם בדראקנסברג בדרום אפריקה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Stubble burning upwind, firecrackers and a cold air trap put the plains under a brown haze from Diwali onward.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The Australian season runs November to April and the Whitsundays sit in the middle of it.
גם בקיירנס, Exmouth, הפארק הלאומי קקדו ועוד 3 באוסטרליה
מקור: bom.gov.au
The South Pacific season runs November to April, with the risk highest between December and February.
גם באוורואה, ררוטונגה באיי קוק
מקור: safetravel.govt.nz
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