Cosmic Climate Change: Yellow snow falls in Russia's far east, again

RIA Novosti
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:49 UTC

Valeriy Melnikov

The Amur region in Russia's Far East was hit by yellow snow, Elena Pechkina, a regional meteorologist, told RIA Novosti on Friday.

High winds in Mongolia mixed the clouds from a front with dust and sand, crossed northern China, and then dumped the unique-colored snow in Russia.

"This type of precipitation is not harmful to the residents of the area and no additional analyses will be done," Pechkina said.

She said this type of snow was not rare, however usually falls in the region at the end of March or early April.

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Comment: Four years ago Sott.net published this: Comet dust build-up? South Korea gets rare yellow snowfall

Two years ago we noticed this: Yellow snowfall over western Siberia

Just last week we reported an incident of purple snowfall, again in Russia.

Of course, they'll say it was the "high winds from Mongolia" that produced this effect, and that explanation will suffice for most. Some however, have looked closer...

From 25 July to 23 September, 2001, in Kerala, India, red rain sporadically fell, staining clothes with an appearance similar to that of blood. Yellow, green, and black rain was also reported. The rains were the result of the atmospheric disintegration of a comet, according to a study conducted at the School of Pure and Applied Physics of the MG University by Dr Godfrey Louis and his student Santosh Kumar. The red rain cells were devoid of DNA which suggests their extra-terrestrial origin. The findings published in the international journal Astrophysics and Space Science state that the cometary fragment contained a dense collection of red cells.