Table 4.

Calendar of confirmed and suspected dust-storm events as identified by either a meteorology observer at Larnaca airport and/or uncharacteristic levels of PM₁₀.

Year	Dates	Number of days	Max number of consecutive days
1995	9 Apr*	1	1
1996	7 Feb#, 8 Feb, 9 Feb	3	3
1997	22 Apr*, 8 Dec	2	1
1998	16 Mar, 27 Mar, 28 Mar, 5 Jul	4	2
1999	17 Feb*, 19 Mar, 30 Mar, 7 May	4	1
2000	4 Apr#, 5 Apr#, 6 Apr#, 13 Apr, 18 Apr, 19 Apr, 18 Nov, 30 Dec*	8	3
2001	27 Feb*, 28 Feb*, 1 Mar, 18 Apr, 19 Apr, 22 Apr, 1 May, 13 May	8	3
2002	31 Mar*, 5 Apr, 6 Apr, 15 Apr, 1 Oct*, 19 Oct, 20 Oct, 10 Nov	8	2
2003	13 Jan, 2 Feb, 18 Feb*, 2 Mar*, 18 Mar, 19 Mar, 3 Apr, 4 Apr, 5 Apr, 6 Apr, 17 Apr*, 24 Apr, 29 May, 30 May, 11 Sept, 17 Sept	16	4
2004	16 Jan, 22 Jan#, 5 Mar, 27 Mar, 7 May, 10 May, 26 Oct#, 27 Oct#	9	2
Total		63	4

Notes: * Days which were identified as dust storms by the Meteorological services but for which levels of PM₁₀ were not uncharacteristically high at either station, n = 11, possibly indicating dust storms of milder intensity ^# Days which were not identified as dust storms by the Meteorological Services but PM₁₀ were uncharacteristically high at both stations, n = 7.