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Orange Snow Created "Martian Landscape" at Russian Winter Olympics Resort

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @05:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the as-long-as-it's-not-yellow dept.

mrpg writes:

A mysterious orange landscape has turned Russia's Winter Olympics site into a "Martian landscape", according to shocked skiers who took to the bizarre slopes.

Orange snow hit Sochi over the weekend as a sandstorm from the Sahara desert changed the colour of the landscape.

[...] Meteorologists said the phenomenon was likely caused by sand from the Sahara desert mixing with snow.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mystery-orange-snow-thats-created-12257480

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @05:48PM (#661585)

    Either way, its better than red: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2299206/ [imdb.com]