Why Snow in Eastern Europe Is Turning Orange

But what caused this clementine-colored phenomenon? Has it
happened before, and will it happen again? Those, and other
questions, answered below.

“As the sand gets lifted to the upper levels of the atmosphere,
it gets distributed elsewhere,” Met Office meteorologist Steven Keates^[1] tells The
Independent^[2]. “When it rains or
snows, it drags down whatever is up there, if there is sand in the
atmosphere.”

The
Guardian^[3] reports that pollen
particles were also in the mix.