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Caribbean volcanic ash and gas cloud approaches Spain
IGNACIO LILLO
...on 9 April and the cloud of ash and gases has made its way across the Atlantic and is approaching the Canary Islands first and, in the following days, the south of the Spanish mainland. Spain’s national weather agency, Aemet, is monitoring the ... noticeable with a change in the colours of the sky at dawn, "like a candle", says José Luis Escudero, a weather expert in Malaga and author of the SUR blog Tormentas y Rayos.