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yuiyoshida

(41,867 posts) Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:33 AM Mar 2018

Orange snow turns Sochi ski resort into a Martian landscape - Daily Mail Daily Mail Daily Mail

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Orange snow turns Sochi ski resort into a Martian landscape - Daily Mail Daily Mail Daily Mail (Original Post) yuiyoshida Mar 2018 OP

The missing explanation... procon Mar 2018 #1

Conspiracy theory! Plucketeer Mar 2018 #2

so don't eat yellow snow should also include the orange variety? dembotoz Mar 2018 #3

So for rigging the election, Putin bought Trump's snow? B Stieg Mar 2018 #4

procon

(15,805 posts)

1. The missing explanation...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 10:26 AM

Mar 2018

The orange snow is a phenomenon that happens once every five years or so, experts say.

Steven Keates, a meteorologist from the UK national weather service, said it was caused by desert sand drifting in from Africa.

“There has been a lot of lifted sand or dust originating from North Africa and the Sahara, from sand storms which have formed in the desert,” Mr Keates told The Independent.

“As the sand gets lifted to the upper levels of the atmosphere, it gets distributed elsewhere.

“Looking at satellite imagery from NASA, it shows a lot of sand and dust in the atmosphere drifting across the Mediterranean.

“When it rains or snows, it drags down whatever is up there, if there is sand in the atmosphere.”

http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/europe/whats-going-on-with-this-eerie-orange-snow/news-story/2063d994fd1bd789fef3fa60b1686699