Don’t eat the snow ORANGE! A plug of Sahara sands turns ski resorts into deep apricot Alps skis after being blown thousands of miles from Africa
- A cross-country ski trail in Val Ferret, Switzerland, was strewn with sand
- A skier in the Pyrenees also grabbed the blanket of sand covering the snow
- The sands of the Sahara desert left the skies and the shadow of a yellow cloud
A Sahara dust plug has swept over ski resorts in the Alps and colored the snow yellow like a sandstorm from the African desert making its way across the continent.
The cross-country ski trail at La Fouly in Val Ferret, Switzerland, was strewn with sand from present-day Sahara sand and left the skies under a yellowish shade.
Skiers have been seen heading to the hillside despite the bad weather after the dust rose from the African desert.
At the same time a skier in the Pyrenees grabbed the sandy blanket covering the snow and scratched the orange layer with their skis.
An orange version was also seen in the Chamonix Mont-Blanc Valley as the air was full of sand dust from the Sahara.
The cross-country ski trail at La Fouly in Val Ferret, Switzerland, was strewn with sand from present-day Sahara sand and left the skies under a yellowish shade.
Skiers with a protective face mask while sitting on a chain in Anzere, Switzerland, as Sahara sands color the snow orange
The orange tweed is the result of strong winds in Africa that forced the sand to sweep over to Europe before hitting the mountains and settling on the snow. Pictured: Val Ferret, Switzerland
The French National Weather and Climate Service published a satellite image showing the sands of the Sahara.
The orange tweed is the result of strong winds in Africa that forced the sand to sweep over to Europe before settling on the snow in the mountains.
The French National Weather and Climate Service published a satellite image showing the sand from the Sahara, with the caption: ‘Seen from space: A low pressure system on the Iberian peninsula is sending a on a powerful southerly stream that takes up sand from the #Sahara as far as France.
Sahara lifts appear in yellow on a satellite image between the Balearic Islands and Sardinia. ‘
A ski truck was also seen plowing through an orange cloud in Sestriere, the western Alps of Italy, near the French border, described as a ‘Martian landscape’.
Writing the image to Twitter, a user wrote: ‘This is not Mars! This is Sestriere, on the Italian Alps, near the French border.
A storm brought sand from the Sahara. Everything grows orange: the sky, the snow, looks like a Martian landscape! ‘
Sand settled on a car bonnet in the Chamonix Valley, France, as orange skies filled the skies.
An orange scene was seen over the streets of the Chamonix Mont-Blanc Valley today
An orange glow was seen all over Lyon, France, today. The National Weather and Climate Service in France tweeted: ‘A low pressure system on the Iberian peninsula is creating a powerful southbound stream that will bring up sand from the #Sahara as far as France’
A ski truck was also seen plowing through an orange cloud in Sestriere, the western Alps of Italy, near the French border, described as a ‘Martian landscape’
Skiers have been seen heading to the hillside despite the bad weather after the dust rose from the African desert. Pictured: Anzere, Switzerland