Dust from the North African Sahara has recently turned snow orange in Eastern Europe, baffling locals who have posted pictures of the spooky orange-tinted sand blanketing countries including Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova on social media. According to experts, this phenomenon is actually not that rare, happening every five years or so. "As the sand gets lifted to the upper levels of the atmosphere, it gets distributed elsewhere," he said. "Looking at satellite imagery from NASA, it shows a lot of sand and dust in the atmosphere drifting across the Mediterranean. When it rains or snows, it drags down whatever is up there, if there is sand in the atmosphere [then it falls, too]," Keates added.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 26, 2018 19:07 UTC