מה קורה מסביב לעולם במאי
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דברים שכדאי לנסוע בשבילם
פריחה, שלכת, לווייתנים, האור עצמו — החלונות הקצרים ששווה לבנות סביבם חודש שלם.
Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.
The commercial fields between here and Haarlem run daffodils, then hyacinths, then tulips, and Keukenhof opens on the same clock.
מקור: keukenhof.nl
The cold months are when trackers find them: fewer visitors, snow that holds a print, and long low light at both ends of the day.
גם בPuerto Natales בצ'ילה
Cold water pushes shoals of sardines up from the Eastern Cape with gannets, dolphins and sharks behind them, most reliably in the last two weeks of June.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
For about seven weeks around the solstice it never gets properly dark.
The beech slopes under Fitz Roy go red and copper for about five weeks, with the first snow on the tops behind them.
גם בבארילוצ'ה בארגנטינה
The garden tulip came from these mountains, and the wild Greigii and Kaufmanniana still come up red on the slopes above the city alongside the poppies.
The beech wood at Halle, a short train ride south-west of Brussels, turns violet with bluebells for about two weeks, usually peaking in mid to late April.
מקור: hallerbos.be
The poplars and larches in the old gold town turn through late April, which is the one thing every New Zealander drives here for out of ski season.
Moss phlox planted in bands under the mountain, with the peak usually in the first half of May.
מקור: shibazakura.jp
The lakefront funnels migrants into a few acres of scrub at Montrose, and on a good May morning the Magic Hedge holds more warbler species than most states see in a year.
מקור: chicagoparkdistrict.com
Three million bulbs along the island roads and a parade of antique cars out to Siasconset for a tailgate picnic, on the last weekend of April.
מקור: daffodilfestival.com
The Somei-Yoshino grove in High Park peaks for four to ten days, usually at the turn of April into May.
Hokkaido gets both at once, usually in the first half of May, a month behind Tokyo, and Maruyama Park does hanami with lamb on a grill.
A million bulbs along Dow's Lake, descended from the wartime gift the Dutch royal family sent back.
מקור: tulipfestival.ca
Long-running spring gathering for birders on Mount Desert Island, timed to warbler migration and nesting seabirds, with guided walks and a boat trip out to see puffins and razorbills.
The avenues around Praca do Principe Real and Avenida Dom Carlos I go purple for a few weeks, usually from the second half of May.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
For about a fortnight in late May and early June the fireflies at Elkmont flash in unison.
גם בהפארק הלאומי קונגארי בארצות הברית
מקור: nps.gov
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.
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 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
On the two or three nights around each full moon while the spray is still high, there is enough moonlight for a moonbow over the gorge, and the park opens after dark for it.
Green turtles come up the beaches at Watamu and Diani through the middle of the year, and the local conservation groups move nests above the tide line and post the hatchings when they happen.
גם בWatamu, Diani Beach בקניה
Leatherbacks haul out overnight on Turtle Beach and Stonehaven Bay from March, peak between April and July, and the hatchlings run through August.
גם בפורט אוף ספיין בטרינידד וטובגו
Leatherbacks use the same beach in the spring, in ones and twos rather than in numbers.
מקור: conserveturtles.org
They turn up on the pinnacles for a few weeks in the spring, and again in a smaller run around September and October.
Cubera snapper spawn at Gladden Spit, 22 miles offshore, in the days after each full moon and whale sharks come up under them to feed.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The bulb fields around Lisse run from late March to the second week of May and usually look their best in the second half of April.
מקור: keukenhof.nl
The bulb fields and the show gardens are an hour west of here and run from the third week of March to the middle of May.
Trilliums, lady's slippers and phacelia work up the mountain through April, low trails first and the high ridges weeks later.
גם בהפארק הלאומי מערת מאמות', הפארק הלאומי שננדואה בארצות הברית
Winter brings the wandering and royal albatross north with the colder water, and the pelagic boats put more species behind the stern in a morning than the rest of the year manages.
The reserves either side of the park are among the darkest measured places on earth, and the dry months put the core of the Milky Way overhead on cloudless nights.
Gannets pack the Bass Rock and puffins come ashore on Craigleith and the Isle of May from spring; the boats go from North Berwick, half an hour out of town.
מקור: seabird.org
The park sits inside the Aoraki Mackenzie dark sky reserve and the galactic core rides highest on the long cold nights from autumn to early spring.
גם בLake Tekapo בניו זילנד
מקור: darkskyreserve.org.nz
Bison calves in the Lamar Valley from late April, bears out of the den on the lower slopes, and wolves visible against the last snow.
…ועוד 202 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 clubs, the beach clubs and most of the island's restaurants all open across three or four weekends from late April.
מקור: ibiza.travel
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
A world tour surf event held over a waiting period at Main Break and The Box, so the day it runs is called each morning.
מקור: margaretriver.com
The glass palaces of the royal estate open to the public for about three weeks each spring, when the plants are in flower.
מקור: monarchie.be
The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.
The Dades valley picks its damask roses through late April and May and marks the end of it with three or four days of parades and market stalls an hour up the road.
מקור: journeybeyondtravel.com
The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The best window on the sandstone: cool rock, long days and the wadis still green in a good year.
מקור: jordantrail.org
The floating-mountain picture needs rain the night before and a clear dawn after it, which is why spring delivers it more often than autumn.
Bluefin are trapped in fixed nets off Barbate and Zahara for a few weeks in late spring, and every restaurant down the coast builds its menu on it until the quota runs out.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The terraces above Longsheng are flooded for rice planting and hold the sky for about six weeks.
Paradise, Super Paradise and the Psarou loungers stagger their openings through May, and the Delos boats start with them.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Around the start of June the big indoor venues shut and reopen as splavovi, barges moored along the Sava and Danube, and move back inland at the end of September.
מקור: serbia.com
Cliff Palace, Balcony House and Long House can only be entered on a ranger tour, and those run roughly May to October.
מקור: home.nps.gov
Bark comes off the montado by hand through the hot months and the stripped trunks go raw orange, with the year painted on each one.
The highest continuous paved road in the country is ploughed open around Memorial Day and closed by the first serious October storm.
מקור: nps.gov
Tivoli opens for the summer at the end of March and shuts in the third week of September.
מקור: tivoli.dk
The amphitheatre runs from about April to early November, with sunrise yoga and film nights filling the gaps between shows.
מקור: redrocksonline.com
Navigation opens on 10 April, and from then until the end of November a dozen bridges over the Neva raise every night for shipping.
מקור: en.mostotrest-spb.ru
The interior roads out of West Yellowstone are ploughed open in stages from mid-April and close again to cars in early November, after which it is snowcoach or nothing.
מקור: nps.gov
The cave entrance is barely a metre high at low tide, so a boatman can only lie you flat and row you through when the sea is calm enough; rough winter seas suspend the trips for days or weeks at a stretch even though the site itself has no fixed closing date.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The valley opens with a ceremony in the middle of April and closes on 15 November, when the hotels shut and the road is gated.
מקור: kamikochi.or.jp
The snow-free window on the standard route, when the walk up is a long slog rather than a mountaineering day.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The Grand Cascade is started with a ceremony in the last days of April and shut down in the second week of October.
מקור: peterhofmuseum.ru
The monsoon pushes plankton into the western atolls and the reef mantas follow it, with Hanifaru Bay in Baa at its most reliable from late July to October.
The two high roads are ploughed open between early May and early July depending on the snowpack, and shut again with the first serious storm in autumn.
מקור: nps.gov
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 sticky weeks before the monsoon are the backwaters' low season: houseboat rates drop well below winter prices and the canals are uncrowded, though midday on deck is hard going.
מקור: en.wikivoyage.org
The Uganda Wildlife Authority discounts the gorilla permit in April, May and November, which are the wettest months here.
מקור: ugandawildlife.org
The heavier of the two wet spells: clear mornings on the reservoir, cloud on the Piedra by two and a downpour after it.
גם בVilla de Leyva, בוגוטה בקולומביה
Trails above about 2,500 feet are asked to stay empty through the spring thaw, when the tread is saturated and walking it destroys it.
מקור: adk.org
The offseason between closing day and the Maroon Bells opening: restaurants take their holiday, hotels close floors, and the trails are still under snow above 3,000 metres.
גם בStowe, טליורייד, פארק סיטי ועוד 4 בארצות הברית
מקור: aspensnowmass.com
The ski areas shut through the second half of April and the valley goes quiet again until the summer lifts start in June.
מקור: chamonix.net
Resorts, charter flights and the Paleokastritsa boats restart around Easter, and the island is at its greenest for the six weeks before the heat arrives.
מקור: visitgreece.gr
When the valley runs close, the Zugspitze glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning into May.
The snow comes off the meadow weeks before the summer trade arrives.
…ועוד 707 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
פסטיבלים ותרבות
הפסטיבלים שמקום מפורסם בזכותם, והשבועות שבהם הרחוב שייך להם.
Two long weekends at the Fair Grounds at the turn of April into May, gospel tent and brass bands as much as headliners.
מקור: nojazzfest.com
For a fortnight the private courtyards of San Basilio and Santa Marina open free to anyone who queues, planted and watered for the competition.
מקור: turismodecordoba.org
Monks walk from Mendut to Borobudur and thousands of paper lanterns go up from the field beside the temple after dark.
מקור: injourneydestination.id
The festival is forty minutes down the coast, but the hotel market is regional: Nice reprices for the fortnight and the airport transfer queue doubles.
גם בקאן בצרפת
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Memorial Day weekend, the largest single-day sporting crowd anywhere, and the fortnight of practice and qualifying before it.
Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The big week ends with J'ouvert before dawn and the Adults' Parade through town, with free nightly shows in the Carnival Village either side of it.
מקור: prnewswire.com
A month of it, not a weekend: the village by the Great Salt Pond opens in April and runs nightly until King Momo is burned in early May.
מקור: thedailyherald.sx
Maltese fireworks clubs and foreign teams compete over the Grand Harbour on several nights in late April.
Three five-day phases of the world's largest trade fair, and the reason a hotel room in Guangzhou can cost four times its usual rate in late April.
מקור: cantonfair.org.cn
A fortnight of publishers, readings and queues at Corferias, with a guest country and half a million visitors.
מקור: bogota.gov.co
One night in late April or early May when the museums, churches and cultural venues stay open until the small hours and the old town is lit blue with installations.
מקור: tourismus.nuernberg.de
Estonia's main jazz festival, running since 1990, takes over Telliskivi and concert halls for about a week from late April into the first days of May.
מקור: jazzkaar.ee
The largest book fair in the Spanish-speaking world takes over La Rural for three weeks, and the city fills with readings and queues that have nothing to do with tourism.
A ten-day food and wine festival across metropolitan Adelaide and the regions, with chef collaborations and long-table dinners that book out early each autumn.
מקור: tastingaustralia.com.au
The main stage sits on the causeway at Pigeon Island, with free fringe shows around Castries and Soufriere for a week and a half.
גם בסופרייר בסנט לוסיה
A weekend of military and civilian display flying straight off the beach, free from the sand between Las Olas and Sunrise.
מקור: air.show
A month of flower carpets, kiosks and two allegorical parades down the seafront, timed to when the island's gardens are at their fullest.
מקור: visitmadeira.com
Held around Buddha's Birthday on a car-free island an hour out by ferry: floating-children parades in the afternoon, bun-tower scrambling overnight.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The season ends with a stadium-sized act playing at 2,300 metres on the Idalp, free with a lift pass, in ski boots.
מקור: ischgl.com
One of New Zealand's oldest marathons, a lap of Lake Rotorua starting and finishing at Government Gardens, usually on a Saturday at the turn of April into May, with shorter races alongside.
מקור: rotoruamarathon.co.nz
Lanterns hang through the temple courtyards for weeks and a parade fills Jongno on the weekend before Buddha's Birthday, which is usually in May.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Sarnath, where the first sermon was given, takes a procession and pilgrims from across Asia on the May full moon.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Three weeks of stand-up in theatres and bars around the central city, shared with Wellington.
מקור: aucklandnz.com
Flower-covered crosses go up in the squares at the start of May, each with a bar beside it, and the city drinks outdoors for four nights.
מקור: cordoba.es
Three days in Tom Lee Park on the river, the first weekend of May, and the opening act of Memphis in May.
מקור: memphisinmay.org
Student caps go on, the Havis Amanda statue is washed and capped on the evening of the 30th, and the whole city picnics in Kaivopuisto on the 1st whatever the weather.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The national dance competition's international final, run by the Ministry of Cultural Development at the National Auditorium in Avarua, usually held the last week of May.
מקור: taurangavananga.com
England's largest arts festival outside Edinburgh takes the whole of May, with a guest director each year and an open-houses trail of artists' front rooms alongside it.
מקור: brightonfestival.org
Streets fill with handmade lotus lanterns and a parade in the run-up to Buddha's Birthday, a UNESCO-listed tradition with roots going back 1,200 years.
מקור: ich.unesco.org
On 1 May the saint is carried out of the city towards Nora behind thousands of Sardinians in the costume of their own village, and the whole island turns up to watch it pass.
מקור: festadisantefisio.it
The PGA Tour's Charlotte stop at Quail Hollow Club, played under different sponsor names since 2003.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Flower crosses in the squares of the Realejo and the Albaicin on 3 May, each with a bar and a sound system beside it.
מקור: granada.org
On the Vesak full moon, lit floats leave the Buddhist Maha Vihara in Brickfields at dusk for a four-hour loop through Bukit Bintang and back; tens of thousands line the route.
מקור: malaysia.travel
For a month the city opens cloisters, crypts and palazzi that are locked the rest of the year, with guided visits run by volunteers.
מקור: comune.napoli.it
Magdalen choir sings from the top of the tower at six in the morning on 1 May and several thousand people stand on the High to hear it.
מקור: oxford.gov.uk
The students' week: a serenade on the cathedral steps at midnight to open it, then a costumed cart parade through the middle of town and a week of concerts by the Queimodromo.
גם בקוימברה בפורטוגל
מקור: queimadasfitas.org
A public holiday on the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death; the temples run all day, with free food outside and a candle procession after dark.
מקור: mom.gov.sg
Villages around the capital fire homemade bamboo rockets into the sky to ask for rain, with a good deal of drinking and mud on the ground beneath them.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
…ועוד 256 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
חגים שמציפים מקום
חגים המוניים: רכבות מלאות, חנויות סגורות, השבועיים היקרים של השנה.
Baskets of paska and painted eggs are blessed outside the Lavra and St Sophia at first light on Easter morning, the one service the curfew is stood down for.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Memorial Day, when sirens stop traffic and entertainment venues close, runs straight into Independence Day: fireworks in the evening, then a public holiday of barbecues in packed parks, beaches and nature reserves.
גם בתל אביב-יפו, אילת, חיפה בישראל
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A fortnight of pilgrimage to the cathedral in spring, with a food and trinket market taking over Place Guillaume for the duration and a closing procession through the streets.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
30 April and 1 May are back-to-back public holidays, often joined to a weekend.
גם בהו צ'י מין סיטי, קאן טהו, דה לאט ועוד 5 בוייטנאם
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Tens of thousands walk the desert road to the sanctuary at Chapi through the night of 30 April, many of them the whole 45 km from the city.
מקור: es.wikipedia.org
A run of public holidays from 29 April to 5 May when much of Japan travels at once: trains, flights and hotels fill, rates peak and popular sights are crowded.
גם בהירושימה, קגושימה, קרויזאווה ועוד 24 ביפן
מקור: www8.cao.go.jp
1 May and 3 May are public holidays, and many Poles take the days between to make a week-long break.
גם בורשה, זאקופנה, גדנסק ועוד 6 בפולין
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont.
גם באז'אקסיו, אנסי, אביניון ועוד 15 בצרפת
מקור: service-public.fr
Eid al-Adha brings Egypt's longest public holiday, usually four or five days.
גם בדהב, El Gouna, ע'רדקה ועוד 7 במצרים
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Eid al-Adha brings a public holiday of four days or more.
גם בפטרה, ואדי רם, ים המלח ועוד 3 בירדן
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Eid al-Adha brings several days of public holiday: shops and offices close for the first days, families visit relatives, and parks, pools and restaurants fill.
גם ביריחו, רמאללה במדינה פלסטינית
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The longer religious holiday, four days and frequently stretched to nine.
גם באיזמיר, סלג'וק, אנקרה ועוד 8 בטורקיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The second national travel week of the year, five days from 1 May.
גם בגואנגג'ואו, גווילין, האנגג'ואו ועוד 8 בהרפובליקה העממית של סין
מקור: china-briefing.com
Eid al-Adha is Morocco's biggest family holiday.
גם בImlil, מרקש, Merzouga ועוד 6 במרוקו
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Eid al-Adha is a public holiday of two days or more.
גם בתוניס, ג'רבה, סוסה ועוד 1 בתוניסיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
9 May is a public holiday marked in every city with a morning parade or wreath-laying in the centre, and usually fireworks after dark.
גם בקלינינגרד, סנקט פטרבורג, צ'יטה ועוד 9 ברוסיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The second of the two major Islamic holidays, about two months after Eid al-Fitr.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The souq in the days before Eid is the reason to time a visit here: goats and cattle walked round the ring, hard bargaining, and then three days when everything shuts.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Children's parades through the Art Nouveau streets, everyone in bunad, and the shops and museums shut for the day.
גם בסבולבר, טרומסה, ברגן ועוד 3 בנורווגיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The whole city walks in national dress, children's parades fill Karl Johans gate from breakfast, and nothing else happens all day.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
A parade through Hamilton with majorettes and Gombey troupes, a half marathon derby in the morning, and by island convention the first day anyone gets in the sea.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, opens the summer travel season: over the long weekend campsites and lodging book out, roads are slow, and parking at the most popular spots fills early in the day.
גם בהפארק הלאומי ארצ'ס, הפארק הלאומי בדלנדס, בר הרבור ועוד 38 בארצות הברית
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Memorial Day evening at Ala Moana Beach Park: several thousand lanterns go out on the water at sunset and about fifty thousand people watch from the sand.
Liberation Day (25 April), Labour Day (1 May) and Republic Day (2 June) are public holidays, and when one falls near a weekend Italians bridge it into a long break, the ponte.
גם בקאפרי, צ'ינקווה טרה, קומו ועוד 17 באיטליה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Hyderabad's old city keeps one of India's largest Muharram observances, with mourning processions past the Ashurkhanas around Charminar and roads closed for Ashura, a gazetted central holiday.
מקור: en.wikipedia.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
The city empties to the villages for the long weekend.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Japan's run of public holidays at the turn of April into May fills Waikiki, the outlet buses and the Diamond Head trail the way nothing but Christmas does.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Japan's run of public holidays at the turn of April fills the direct flights and the Garapan hotels, and Korean breaks do the same in shorter bursts.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Reunification Day and May Day run together into the year's biggest domestic travel block, and the central coast beaches are where the country goes.
גם במפרץ הא לונג, הואה, נאצ'אנג ועוד 1 בוייטנאם
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Two long weekends back to back put the whole Baksan valley on the spring snow at once; the Azau cable car queues and the huts on the mountain fill with domestic groups.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Russia runs two public holidays into one long break at the start of May, and the valley fills for the last of the snow at the top and the first of the trails below it.
גם בסוצ'י ברוסיה
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Five days when the mainland travels and Macau is one of the places it goes.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Walpurgis night runs into a public holiday of street parties and demonstrations around Oranienstrasse and Görlitzer Park.
מקור: visitberlin.de
The longer of the two Eids, several days of it, and residents leave in bulk through the airport.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The year's second mass-travel week after Spring Festival: domestic tourists fill the Wall, the Forbidden City sells out its cap for days, and train tickets go the hour they release.
גם בצ'ונגצ'ינג בהרפובליקה העממית של סין
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
1 and 2 May are public holidays, and Serbs head out of town for barbecues by rivers, in parks and in the countryside.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The march across the Plaza de la Revolucion starts around dawn and the city is closed to traffic for the morning.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Several days of public holiday when Maldivians travel home between islands, so ferry seats and seaplane slots go to residents first.
מקור: officeholidays.com
…ועוד 140 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
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The birch count runs high for about six weeks in spring, right as the outdoor tables come back out.
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On warm still evenings in May the Formosan termites fly in clouds thick enough to clear a restaurant patio and coat every lit window in the Quarter.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Afternoon drives in May and June are genuinely punishing in an open canter, and the park runs them anyway because that is when the animals show.
גם באגרה, ג'ודפור, ג'איפור ועוד 3 בהודו
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The Hill Country upstream turns rain into wall-of-water floods faster than almost anywhere in the country, and late spring is the worst of it.
מקור: weather.gov
The fortnight the Tamil almanac names as the hottest of the year, and the city agrees with it.
מקור: internal.imd.gov.in
For two or three weeks the city fills with white seed fluff off the poplars planted after the war: drifts of it in the gutters, in your eyes, and a fortnight of misery for anyone with hay fever.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
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.
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The northwesterly shamal blows for a day or three at a time in spring and takes the skyline with it; flights hold, the sea turns brown and anyone with a chest keeps indoors.
מקור: ncm.gov.ae
The windiest stretch of the year across the Rio Grande valley, with afternoon gusts that lift dust off the mesa and shut down balloon flights and small aircraft.
מקור: weather.gov
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust over the city for a day or two at a time in spring, and the sea haze holds it in.
גם בקהיר, לוקסור, אסואן במצרים
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
For six weeks in spring the whole city turns yellow: cars, porches, water.
גם בראלי בארצות הברית
מקור: pollen.com
North Georgia's tornado and hail season runs through spring, and the warnings here come overnight as often as in the afternoon.
מקור: weather.gov
Dust off the Mongolian plateau reaches the city several times each spring, turning the sky yellow and pushing the air readings off the usual scale for a day or two.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.
מקור: mausam.imd.gov.in
Dust off the Asian mainland reaches Kyushu first and the worst days leave a film on parked cars.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Spring winds carry interior dust out over the Red Sea coast, whiting out the sky for a day or two at a time and holding flights on the worst of them.
מקור: ncm.gov.sa
Hot desert winds push dust over the hills for a few days at a stretch in spring and again in autumn, turning the light brown and the view from the Mount of Olives into nothing.
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Still, sunny, rainless weeks in the basin cook the traffic exhaust into ozone, and the city declares contingencies that pull cars off the road.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The wind off the interior turns the sky ochre for a day or two at a stretch, cancelling flights and putting sand through every window frame.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Spring brings the worst air of the year, part local, part dust and pollution blown in from the west.
גם באינצ'ון בקוריאה הדרומית
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The build-up before the rains is the hardest part of the Yangon year, and the city moves indoors between about eleven and four.
North-westerlies lift the dried marsh and desert soil; a bad day turns the sky orange and grounds flights at Baghdad International.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Bukhara sits in one of the dustiest corners of Uzbekistan, and from spring into summer a strong westerly off the Kyzylkum can turn the sky over the old town brown for a day or so.
מקור: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The spring southerly arrives with a jump in temperature and a sky the colour of weak tea, usually two or three days at a time before it clears.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust up the rift for a few days at a time in spring, dropping the visibility across the water to nothing and coating everything left outside.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
The wettest and stormiest stretch of the year, with hail, tornado warnings and flash flooding on the creeks.
גם בממפיס, נאשוויל, אינדיאנפוליס בארצות הברית
מקור: weather.gov
The wind gets up in spring and the dunes move with it: gritty air for days at a time, camps struck early and the road east regularly half-buried.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Hot southerly winds pull desert dust over the escarpment for a few days at a stretch in spring, turning the rock flat brown and the light useless for photographs.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Bavaro and Macao face east into the drift and take the brunt of it; hotels rake at dawn and the sheltered coves clear faster.
מקור: caricoos.org
Spring is when the warm Gulf air meets the cold front over the Mississippi valley, and the region sits at the eastern edge of tornado country.
גם בדאלאס בארצות הברית
מקור: weather.gov
Gobi dust rides the spring wind up over the city several times a season, turning the sky orange and grounding domestic flights.
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
Heat advisories start in late March and the middle of the day goes indoors until the rains break.
מקור: mausam.imd.gov.in
Late-afternoon squall lines come out of the northwest through the hot months, drop the temperature in minutes and take trees and hoardings down with them.
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The east and south-east coasts collect the weed through the summer, and the smell as it rots keeps people off Bathsheba and Crane for days.
Rafts of brown seaweed pile up on the east-facing beaches, worst between May and August.
גם באיסלה מוחרס, פלאיה דל כרמן, טולום במקסיקו
מקור: en.wikipedia.org
…ועוד 139 בקבוצה הזאת. פתחו את העמוד של כל יעד ללוח החודשי שלו.
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