Colourful Winter

Russia’s far eastern Amur region has received yellow-coloured snowfall as shown in the inset. High winds in Mongolia mixed clouds with dust winds in Mongolia mixed clouds with dust and sand, crossed northern China and dumped the unique yellow coloured snow in the Russian region, RIA Novosti news agency reported. “This type of precipitation is not harmful to the residents of the area and no additional analysis will be done,” Elena Pechkina, a regional meteorologist was quoted as saying by the agency. The meteorologist said this type of snow was not rare. However, it usually falls in the region in the end of March or early April. In South Korea, however, where the phenomenon took place in 2006, people had been warned that the yellow snow could pose health hazards.