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Video of Purple Snow in Russia
ChicoER ^ | 6/11/10 | Chuck Wolk

Posted on 06/11/2010 5:30:12 PM PDT by Tom Hawks

Earlier this year on March 9, 2010 it snowed in the Southern Russian region of Stavropol. Normally I would not write an article about snow in Russia, but the snow that fell on that day, was not the kind of snow one envisions when dreaming of a white Christmas.  No, the snow that fell to the ground that morning was actually purple instead of white.  That's right purple snow. Now I am pretty sure most of you have heard of the song "Purple Rain" by the artist formerly known as Prince, but have any of you ever seen purple colored rain?  I only ask, because if it had not been so cold that day in March, then maybe I would be writing an article about purple rain instead of purple snow

So then, what caused this phenomenon to happen you may wonder? Well after having analyzed the samples, climatologists determined that a massive dust cyclone in Africa rose to the upper atmospheric layers and eventually traveled into Southern Russian air space. Once over Russia, the red dye in the wind blown sand mixed with the precipitation in the clouds and the normally white snow fell with a purplish hue.

After watching this video myself, I decided to do some investigation to see how rare this phenomenon is, and what I found was fascinating. The phenomenon is not as rare as I thought it would be. Fact is, I found several reports of colored snow and rain being reported in various different areas of our planet. The oldest report on record took is almost a hundred yeas old. In 1912 black snow fell on parts of Alaska and....

At the end of the article is the video of the purple snow.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; blogdate06102010; bloggersandpersonal; cosmologists; environment; meteorologist; science
Now I have heard of yellow snow, but I never heard of purple snow.

Now I did watch the movie "The Madness of King George", where it seems that King George III actually had a medical condition where his pee was blue. So If he peed in the snow, then their would have been blue snow.

It really quite an entertaining yet misguided movie in what they were trying to get us to believe. They seemed to insinuate that because he was mad for a while and under a doctors care for his condition, that caused him to have blue urine, that the reason we won the war was because of his preoccupation with his temporary madness.

1 posted on 06/11/2010 5:30:13 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
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To: Tom Hawks

Acid laced snow... Groovy ;)

Another invention by the Soviet enterprise, Comrades./sarc


2 posted on 06/11/2010 5:33:41 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Tom Hawks
NorCal Blogs
3 posted on 06/11/2010 5:35:29 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Tom Hawks

That girls english accent is SOOOOOOO Sexy.... and she’s cute.... just saying.......


4 posted on 06/11/2010 5:44:30 PM PDT by 2aberro
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To: Tom Hawks

Well, great googly moogly...


5 posted on 06/11/2010 5:45:01 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Tom Hawks

How To Color Urine
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/03/07/how-to-color-urine.htm


6 posted on 06/11/2010 5:49:46 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Tom Hawks

Dreamed I was an Eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...

And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don’t be a naughty Eskimo
Save your money, don’t go to the show

Well I turned around and I said “Oh, oh” Oh
Well I turned around and I said “Oh, oh” Oh
Well I turned around and I said “Ho, Ho”
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
“Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow”
“Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow”


7 posted on 06/11/2010 5:51:50 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Tom Hawks

Watch out where the Huskies go.


8 posted on 06/11/2010 5:52:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Tom Hawks
The disease was porphyria.

CC

9 posted on 06/11/2010 5:52:05 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (ostende mihi pecuniam!)
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To: Tom Hawks
The disease was porphyria.

CC

10 posted on 06/11/2010 5:52:35 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (ostende mihi pecuniam!)
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To: Tom Hawks

If you make purple snow, see your doctor immediately.


11 posted on 06/11/2010 5:54:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Celtic Conservative

that’s right, I remember reading that at the end of the move. Thanks


12 posted on 06/11/2010 6:06:11 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
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To: DaxtonBrown

I was just thinking of that song...Zappa!


13 posted on 06/11/2010 6:24:32 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: Tom Hawks
Get blue tinted snow here occasionally, haven’t figured out if it is the snow or just the sun shining on it. Never notice it until I’m clearing it.
14 posted on 06/11/2010 6:31:38 PM PDT by BallyBill (WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
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To: Tom Hawks

Are sweater vests coming back? Groovy!

They guy in the video is wearing one.


15 posted on 06/11/2010 7:07:07 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Tom Hawks

the reason we won the war was because of his preoccupation with his temporary madness.

Not true

Brit propaganda

I go there, and their newspapers STILL have articles refighting the Revolutionary War and how their side shoulda won. Ha!

King George had his ministers fight the War

I was called the Ministerial army

Probably hiring 50,000 Germans (Hessians) to come here was not a real good idea.

They wished to “punish” us upstarts

maybe still do as far as I can tell.


BTW

I saw Newt talking about the battle of Trenton

the guy didn’t know the most basic stuff - Am History Prof !!!

Laughable


16 posted on 06/11/2010 11:40:43 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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