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Southern Russia overwhelmed with purple snow
Posted on Friday, 12 March, 2010 | 16 comments
Residents of southern Russia were perplexed this week after purple snow started piling up in the streets.
Scientists believe the strange coloured snow is the result of a massive dust cyclone mixing with snow clouds in the upper atmosphere, it is believed the dust is from Africa.
The very morning following the widely celebrated Woman's Day - people in Southern Russia could not believe their eyes when they found purple snow piled on city streets.
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#12 Posted by ADMikey on 13 March, 2010, 3:38I can explain this meteorological phenomena: Purple snow is likely caused by a change in the red dye of wind-blown dirt that gave it a purplish hue instead of blood red. In the Mount Katmai eruption in 1912, volcanic ash in snowstorms made black snow to fall in Alaska and parts of western Canada. Co...
#13 Posted by the rebirth on 13 March, 2010, 11:02tis grape flavour? thats enough for a lot of snowcones, russia. i fully expect russia to provide snowcones for everyone. oh and that purple polar bear would be the only one capable of effective camouflage in this new russian landscape. serves all the other bears right for makin fun of him that wh...
#14 Posted by Moon Princess on 14 March, 2010, 17:37Omg. o-o; *Reads the link*
#15 Posted by san girl on 16 March, 2010, 16:26Woah thats weird but KEWL!!!
#16 Posted by AliveInDeath on 16 March, 2010, 17:53I want red snow
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