Purple Snow in Russia (Video Report)

by Chuck Ness

Earlier this year on March 9, 2010 it snowed in the Southern Russian region of Stavropol. Normally I would not write an article about snow in Russia, but the snow that fell on that day, was not the kind of snow one envisions when dreaming of a white Christmas.  No, the snow that fell to the ground that morning was actually purple instead of white.  That's right purple snow.  Now I am pretty sure most of you have heard of the song "Purple Rain" by the artist formerly known as Prince, but have any of you ever seen purple colored rain?  I only ask, because if it had not been so cold that day in March, then maybe I would be writing an article about purple rain instead of purple snow.
 
So then, what caused this phenomenon to happen you may wonder?  Well after having analyzed the samples, climatologists determined that a massive dust cyclone in Africa rose to the upper atmospheric layers and eventually traveled into Southern Russian air space.  Once over Russia, the red dye in the wind blown sand mixed with the precipitation in the clouds and the normally white snow fell with a purplish hue. 
 
After watching this video myself, I decided to do some investigation to see how rare this phenomenon is, and what I found was fascinating.  The phenomenon is not as rare as I thought it would be.  Fact is, I found several reports of colored snow and rain being reported in various different areas of our planet.  The oldest report on record took is almost a hundred yeas old.  In 1912 black snow fell on parts of Alaska and Western Canada. In 2006 yellow snow blanketed the capital of South Korea, and just a few years ago it happened twice in Russia. Counting the purple snow in the video below, that makes it three times in four years that colored snow fell somewhere in Russia. I ran across over a dozen such occurrences mentioned in various venues, and only God knows how many have never been reported. 
 
I'll begin with the black snow that landed on parts of Alaska and Canada in 1912 after a volcano near Mount Katmai, called Novarupta, erupted.  The volcano spewed seven cubic miles of blistering rock and ash into the upper atmosphere where it mixed with snow clouds over parts of Alaska and Canada.  When it eventually snowed, the snow was black.
 
In 2006 the South Koreans were treated to a rare weather phenomenon that caused yellow snow to fall on their capital city Seoul. After a massive dust storm blew through China's Gobi Desert, it carried yellow sand into the high atmosphere over the Korean Peninsula.  When the yellow sand mixed with the precipitation, it was just a matter of time before the temperatures would be just cold enough for it to dust South Korea with yellow snow. Now this was not just a few spots of yellow snow like the kind our parents told us not to eat when we were younger either.  The yellow snow covered more than just the city, it also dusted the surrounding countryside. 
 
In Russia, the first time it was powdered with some snow of a different color, was in Western Siberia.  The incident that set things in place for the occurrence was a cyclone that began to form in the southeastern Caspian Sea area.  After the cyclone winds moved inland they traveled over the territories of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Volga and Ural regions. The climatologists determined that the cyclone carried mineral deposits from the region that contained a natural yellow dye.  When the dust saturated clouds eventually burst, they rained yellow snow down on Russia's cold Siberian countryside.  
 
The second time it happened in Russia was about a Month later near the Siberian village of Pudinskoye. The local residents woke up one morning to find orange snow falling from the sky.  It was again determined that dust in the atmosphere mixed with the precipitation, and when it was time for the clouds to disperse their moisture, it came down as orange snow. Now unlike the colored snow in Alaska, Canada, South Korea, and Southern Russia the dust over Siberia was instead created when a meteorite the size of a volleyball exploded high in the atmosphere just a few week earlier in a neighboring region.
 
Finally there is the incident that happened in Kerala India, back in 2002 when red rain sporadically fell for over two months, staining clothes with an appearance similar to that of blood.  Many citizens also reported seeing yellow, green, and black rain.  Similar to what created the orange snow in Siberia, most experts believe that the red rain in was the result of the atmospheric disintegration of a comet. 
 
In all these instances you can find differing opinions of what caused the snow or rain to be colored. One such opinion is that it is caused by man made global warming, and that the instances of colored moisture proves that global warming is a scientific fact.  The proponents of this great scheme will tell you that it is caused by all the pollution we have been spewing into the atmosphere by using fossil fuels that drive our evil capitalist societies of the world.  Their cure for this problem is to tell us we need to eliminate our dependency on fossil fuels or we will be seeing more and more instances of red rain and yellow snow.
 
Then there are the Darwinists, who look at the evidence of the red rain and claim that it proves humans were actually planted here, via extraterrestrial cells attached to the comets and meteorites exploding in our atmosphere.  This is actually a theory put out by Dr Godfrey Louis and his student Santosh Kumar.  Basically, their theory states that one day lightning hit a primordial pool of swamp water filled with cells from these meteorites and comets.  The next thing you know there was life on earth, while Darwin's theory of evolution explains the rest of the story.  For those who wish to explore this theory a little more, I offer these two links [ (1 ) (2 ) ] where you can read about Dr Godfrey's studies.
 
As for me, I believe the colored snow and rain are all caused by dust particles in the atmosphere, which dyed the normally colorless precipitation.  Thus we have colored rain or snow depending what the temperature is when the clouds burst over head. I believe this because of the sound and proven work Victor Clube of Nuclear Winter Fame did on the study of particles in the atmosphere.  While I do have some problems with Mr Clube's conclusions about nuclear fallout itself, the portion of his conclusions pertaining to dust particles in the atmosphere have been tried and tested to be true.  What Clube's studies have shown us, is that very fine particles from exploding meteorites can easily float around the atmosphere for as long as a month or more before it clears away.  So just as the dust storms or cyclones can carry dust particles into the atmosphere, the meteorites and comets exploding in the atmosphere can and does give us red rain, or purple snow from time to time.
 
Which brings me back to the artist formerly known as Prince.  Do you think that maybe he witnessed a similar phenomenon when he was inspired to write the lyrics for the song "Purple Rain"?  Well as you ponder that question, enjoy these two videos about the day it rained down purple snow upon Southern Russia, and red rain that fell on India. 

Next is the video that reports about the red rain that fell on in Kerala India in 2002.  The villager being interviewed in the video mentions the Kali Yuga.  He says that he believes the red rain is a sign, or portent of bad times to come.  For those who are unfamiliar with Hinduism, Kali Yuga is the "Iron Age" of Hindu mythology. Hindu mythology says that the history of every world of time is separated into four four ages as follows.
 

• 1.) The Krita Yuga (Golden Age of Truth), lasting 4,800 years of the gods
• 2.) The Treta Yuga (Silver Age), 3,600 years of the gods
• 3.) The Dwapara Yuga, 2,400 years of the gods
• 4.) The Kali Yuga (Iron or Evil Age), 1,200 years of the gods.

Since a year of the gods equals 360 years of men, the extent of Kali Yuga is said to be 432,000 years.  So extrapolating the numbers out from the probable beginning of their four ages, means that Kali Yuga would have begun in 540 B.C.E. Now during the Kali Yuga stage, righteousness has diminished by three-quarters, and the age is one of devolution, culminating in the destruction of the world prior to a new creation.  Then another Krita Yuga begins another set of cycles which in essence means there is an endless cycle of time.

I know, only lost men could come up with something so illogical and insufficient when speaking of ones eternal salvation.  I just wanted to give you an idea of what the villager is speaking of when he mentions the Kali Yuga.  Also, I took this video clip from a much longer BBC documentary about Dr Godfrey's theory of extraterrestrials seeding earth with life. My purpose for using only a short clip is so you can see the red rain.