Yellow-orange snow falling in Russia

AFP, via Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Feb 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Russia's emergency situations ministry says it is dispatching experts to a Siberian province to find out why yellow and orange snow has been falling in several villages, the ITAR-TASS news agency has reported.

"A chemical test unit will be sent to Omsk ... it's main task will be to investigate pollution in the region and establish the degree of danger represented by the anomalous snow fall," the agency quoted an unnamed official from the ministry as saying.

Snow ranging in colour from light yellow to orange and carrying a distinctive "musty"

[Grizzled Bear]

Distinctive Musty would be a great name for a band.


The last time I heard the word 'musty' used it was describing horny male elephants on a nature program.

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How would "Yellow Musty and the Horny Elephants" sound as a name for a band?

[Socratic]

Loess is causing more problems for the Ruskies.

[kinoxi]

Re #39
The article says musty, that is what I was commenting on.

[geopyg]

How would "Yellow Musty and the Horny Elephants" sound as a name for a band?


Okay - but her voice must be REALLY good! (blechhh)

[kinoxi]

Your terminology is more accurate.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"It's tough to say whether it's yellow sand mixed in snow or if it's snow mixed in yellow sand," a met official told Reuters.

Okay then.....

[KC Burke]

In Siberia, there are artificially enlarged industrial towns that are some of the worst polluting industrial complexes in the world. They are in deeply cold regions that would never have population and were built to exploit mineral resources and spread Soviet control as well as take advantage of Gulag slave labor.

Region was felt to be agriculturally worthless and therefore suitable to pollute without worry.

the airborne particulate is probably the reason.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Pictures, I want to see pictures!

[Calpernia]

>>>>don’t we have some astronauts hovering in orbit, astronauts that just spent many hours working in space without a bathroom break?

There goes one!

[FreeReign]

"I CAN'T SEE"

Well, that's cause your Python boot's too tight.

He took a dog-doo sno-cone
An' stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo sno-cone
An' stuffed it in my other eye
An' the huskie wee-wee,
I mean the doggie wee-wee
Has blinded me
An' I can't see
Temporarily

[crghill]

Hey,

Get back on topic. It's the evil USA and it's horrible pollution that is causing global warming. (sarc)

[RaceBannon]

"Well we come from the land of yellow snow/Where the cold winds blow and the people glow..."

BZZZZT

< Incorect, the correct answer is:

"Well we come from the land of yellow snow/ OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW..."

...I think....

But right abot that time people...a fur-trapper...who was strictly from commercial....