Yellow dust?

[old.user4556]

It's got really warm all of a sudden as the wind has swung to the south, and today I noticed (including my own car) that there were deposits of a yellowish/sandy dust where there had been little pools of condensation on the car. It was all over it and my girlfriend's car, and when I got back to where I live I saw the same on the other cars.

Anyone else?

 

[old.Tohtori]

It's got really warm all of a sudden as the wind has swung to the south, and today I noticed (including my own car) that there were deposits of a yellowish/sandy dust where there had been little pools of condensation on the car. It was all over it and my girlfriend's car, and when I got back to where I live I saw the same on the other cars.

Anyone else?

Pollen? It's usually every-f*ckity-where at this time.

 

[ECA]

You're girlfriend is actually a giant space lizard and her skin is shedding.
I would move out ASAP.

 

[RandomBastard]

Its sand. Carried in the winds.

 

[Olgaline]

toht sounds to be on to something,

but sand is yellow yes!

but aflik he means a different kind of yellow yes ?

 

[SilverHood]

Every few years, we'd get Sahara desert sand in Denmark, carried by the wind. It does happen

 

[old.Tohtori]

toht sounds to be on to something,

but sand is yellow yes!

but aflik he means a different kind of yellow yes ?

Yeah, sand is yellow'ish, but not as yellow as the shocked G seems to be.

Also, sand just gathers everywhere and leaves when things dry up, pollen(if i remember correctly), latches on even after dried up.

 

[TdC]

it's just like yellow snow Big G. try not to breathe too deeply

 

[old.user4556]

YELLOW DUST PLAGUE MYSTERY - Louth Leader

BBC Weather Centre - World Weather - News - 11/05/2006 - Yellow dust descends on eastern UK

Edit: fuck me, they are both old (2 years!) articles but are almost to the exact day that I noticed this - same thing?

 

[Billargh]

Yeah seen loads of the stuff planted on cars all over the place today aswell.

 

[Will]

Is it not just birch pollen?

 

[Scouse]

Rape?

 

[pez]

Experts have suggested the dust could be pollen from oil seed rape fields or sand from the Sahara which has dropped from the upper atmosphere

I hate to nit-pick but where the fuck are they getting their experts from who can't tell the difference between pollen and sand?

 

[TdC]

lol. too right Pez. answer is prolly because they're media experts. or perhaps really poor experts who don't have access to microscopes

 

[Will]

They probably phones two experts and asked them what yellow dust on cars could be. No more info than that.

 

[Malecheon]

Two blokes in the pub have suggested the dust could be pollen from oil seed rape fields or sand from the Sahara which has dropped from the upper atmosphere

Fixed.

 

[old.user4556]

Answered.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Sepa probing 'desert' dust cloud

 

[RandomBastard]

As I said.... sand.... we get it all the time in devon, constantly covering my car.