 Poster: A snowHead
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Putting skis on the car this morning I noticed brown dots on the car .. Slightly odd but I figured it was road spray from our trip back from Notre Dame de Bellecombe yesterday .. But then on the slopes it looked like the same brown stuff was on the pistes as well .. What's up with that?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sand from north Africa. Happens once in a while.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Marmotte pee
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Someone said Africa dust .. Another guy said he thought it was pollen .. Dust seems more plausible ..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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As Prince once so famously sang.
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It's widespread today, it seems.
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Pollen. All over today.
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Its sand from Africa
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As Toto once so famously sang.
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| Mr Pieholeo wrote: |
| As Prince once so famously sang. |
I recall purple rain, not brown rain 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Saharan sand courtesey of the Scirocco. Fawn snow is wierd.
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You know it makes sense.
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We were told it was pollen - sand makes more sense as seems a bit early for hay fever season!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Sand. We had it here in Bavaria as well. My car looks like shit one day after taking it through the car wash 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Steilhang, ditto - we copped a huge amount in Weßling yesterday, while back here auf dem Berg, there is not quite as much on the cars I know are kept outside. I was quite ashamed of my car when I parked outside the bakery this morning. I only went to the car wash last Thursday as well!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We don't get rain here often but when we do, cars are completely coated in wet brown water which then gets caked on.
Right PITA!
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Samerberg Sue, Weßling is just a couple of Km away from me, so you got the same load that we got.
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We had the same, the lower piste was a lovely shade of beige.
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Steilhang, just looked down on my car (blue Caddy) and the roof is almost white with the stuff! A visit to the car wash again this week is on the cards now Just got to find the time.
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Vot is this thing "car wash"?????
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gvj
Car Wash (n). Vehicular cleansing process performed once per car owned, just prior to advertising it on Gumtree.
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Mr Pieholeo,  On our Landy I reckon that if the lumps of dirt get big enough, they'll fall off by themselves.
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| gvj wrote: |
| Mr Pieholeo, On our Landy I reckon that if the lumps of dirt get big enough, they'll fall off by themselves. |
Same - Defender has not been washed since I got here in early January. That said, jet washing the chassis tomorrow as Land Rovers chassis' seem to be made of rust, and salted roads are probably not doing it any good...
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We experienced this at half term in the GM, it was all over the place but particularly Morrillon and Les Carroz. It made the snow look like lightly baked meringue with a light brown tinge. I ask the pisteurs about it and they said that because of the warm temperatures and likelihood of significant rain they spray a chemical through the snow cannons which reduces the snow melt significantly. They said they rarely do it as it looks very ugly. I took a couple of days and good dump of snow to dissipate.
Now I haven't heard of this before and checked it wasn't April Fools Day and so I asked three different people working around the resort at different lifts and a restaurant and they corroborated the explanation.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Definitely "Red Rain" ( or snow in your case). Get it from January/February thru to about April, occasionally later in South of France -- total PITA has the consistency of cement and the 'sand' is really fine. Had more this year than normal although not as 'heavy' as it can be.
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You know it makes sense.
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Agenterre, that sounds more plausible. I can only think the pisteurs were having me on along with others and the rumour mill did the rest.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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And that layer of sand is still causing issues with avalanches as it formed a distinct layer which the new snow did not adhere to. In some areas it has slipped 2 or 3 times in the same place. It has even featured in the formal Meteo France Avi reports ('couche de sable').
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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