Clockwork Orange? Why Russian Ski Slopes Are Being Blanketed In The Strange Color

March 26, 2018btollesonRSS Sample

Orange snow in the mountains at the Rosa Khutor ski resort outside Sochi, Russia, on Friday.

The skies over Crete were an eerie orange, too. Why the tangerine tint? Powerful storms in North Africa blew sands from the Sahara across the Mediterranean.

(Image credit: Margarita Alshina/AP)