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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Yellow Snow Falls In the Russian Far East

Filed under: Russian,science — 01varvara @ 00.00

“Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow”… I do daresay that’s a DIFFERENT kind of yellow snow…

Yellow snow fell in the Amur region in the Russian Far East, Yelena Pechkina, a regional meteorologist, told RIA-Novosti on Friday. High winds in Mongolia mixed the clouds from a front with dust and sand, it crossed northern China, and, then, it dumped the unique-colour snow in Russia. “This type of precipitation is not harmful to the residents of the area and no additional analyses will be done”, Ms Pechkina said. She said this type of snow was not rare; it usually falls in the region at the end of March or in early April.

5 March 2010

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100305/158098746.html

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