The Sky is Falling!

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BUMP!

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BLOOD-COLOURED rain poured down in a remote Siberian city, creating an eerie scene that witnesses compared to a biblical plague or the apocalypse
By OLI SMITH
PUBLISHED: 13:00, Thu, Jul 5, 2018

Rain in a remote region of Russia has turned a blood-stained red in a shocking weather event.

Extraordinary footage of the scene shows the red rain pour down in the Siberian city of Norilsk.

Video of the rain shows a car park at a local nickel and copper processing plant in the Arctic.

The vehicles and ground were soaked in a blood-red rain.

According to Russia Today, locals in Norilsk feared that the rain signaled an imminent apocalypse or a biblical plague.

One witness said: "It is like a horror movie. There was bloody rain."

Health officials were quick to point out that the oddly-coloured rain was not a risk to the local population.

Rain in Russia's remote regions has turned a blood-stained red in a shocking weather event

A spokesperson for the metals giant Nornickel told TASS news agency that they conducted a probe and established the cause of the incident.

Far from being the effect of pollution, the company claimed the rain was caused by a clean-up operation.

Nornickel, which owns the Nadezhdinsky processing plant, said that the company had been carrying out a clean-up in the mining city on Saturday.

Huge quantities of iron oxide had been removed from the factory floor and roof in order to improve the environment.

The material "was gathered and prepared to be taken away".

They said that "a gust of wind blew it over the parking lot while the rain caused it to fall" and produce the eerie scenes.

Nornickel said the bizarre rain only took place over the car park area and was not widespread.

Metals giant Nornickel said the rain was caused by a clean-up operation

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/984303/blood-red-rain-Russia-freak-weather-viral-video

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Freak weather: Orange snowstorm submerges tourist resorts with eerie 'apocalyptic' scenes
A FREAK WEATHER incident has struck at least four countries, turning white snow into an eerie orange shade that has left residents terrified about the cause.
By OLI SMITH
PUBLISHED: 08:32, Mon, Mar 26, 2018

Cities around Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania have all reported the bizarre orange snow phenomenon, videos of which have quickly gone viral.

Tourist destinations, including ski resorts, have been blanketed by the orange snow, which has turned snowy mountains into sand dunes.

Several witnesses compared the scene to an "apocalyptic scenario" or something that resembled the surface of Mars.

Tourist destinations, including ski resorts, have been blanketed by the orange snow

Scientists have blamed the eerie snow tint, which varied from light yellow to intense orange and even brown, on a mix of sand and pollen.

Experts from the Sochi Centre of Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Black and Azov Seas were sent to test the strange sight yesterday.

A spokesman for the centre said the cause of the phenomenon was likely winds carrying sand from the Sahara, which then fell as rain.

However, they also predicted that things will be back to normal within days.

Tourists at a ski resort in Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, posted photos on Instagram and Twitter of the hazy landscapes and yellow-orange slopes.

Several witnesses compared the scene to an "apocalyptic scenario"

One user said: "Martian landscape, Apocalypse Now."

Another added: "Snowy slopes were transformed into barkhan dunes."

Similar photos were posted by residents in Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria.

The snow phenomenon has been compared to a similar incident that took place in Siberia in 2007 when orange-tinted snowfall covered  1,500 square kilometres.

Despite theories, it remained unclear what caused the orange snow display, with speculation ranging from pollution to a nearby sandstorm.

According to Russia's environmental watchdog at the time, the snow was reported to be "malodorous, oily and contain four times the normal level of iron".

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/936514/Freak-weather-Orange-snowfall-tourist-ski-resort-Russia-Sochi

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