Pink snow: Extreme weather is probably causing an extraordinary natural phenomenon in the Alps. The snow could turn pink due to mixing with red sand.
Two meters of fresh snow in the Piedmont Alps on Sunday. But snowfall is not the only natural phenomenon. At the same time, the Scirocco wind is expected to carry a load of desert dust from North Africa to the European mountains. The avalanche warning level was drastically increased and one valley even had to be evacuated. A German died in an avalanche in South Tyrol.