Sahara Sand Over Europe !

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We haven’t had any snow to speak of in the south of Germany up to now. February is usually a cold winter month, but not this year. An anticipation of spring can even be felt. But we’ve had a rare and rather strange natural phenomenon today, namely a yellow sky. How can the sky be yellow? I’ve just read on the net that in some regions of Spain the sky is even brown. This must be really eerie. The reason for the unnatural colour of the sky is that dust particles have blown from the Sahara desert in the North of Africa - mainly from the countries Mauretania, Mali and Algeria - across the Mediterranean Sea and the mountain range of the Alps to the southern part of Central European countries. This is a distance of about 3.000 km / ~1.900 miles. Switzerland has got quite a lot of this yellow-brown dust which leads to the effect of yellow snow fields which must be a strange sight indeed. Obviously the dust is not dangerous for human beings, but tomorrow car-wash sites will earn well and some housewives will start spring cleaning their windows! It must be exceptionally warm in North Africa for the dust to rise up to two to five kilometres. Seen from below it seems to cover the sun which shines milky white through the clouds. The phenomenon won’t last, though, as cold weather is forecast. All kinds of natural phenomena can be found on the American continent, but Americans will never have a yellow-brown sky because of flying sand from a desert!