Everything's Gone Brown...

Definite weird stuff from the Swiss Alps where freak weather reportedly dumped 80,000 tonnes of fine sand from the Sahara onto ski slopes, cars and streets.

Ski slopes turned brown and car washes were overwhelmed as people queued to wash the reddish sand from their vehicles. The sand was sucked up from the Sahara by rising water vapour before heading across the Med carried by clouds, along the Spanish coast and across France to Geneva where rain carried the red dust back to earth.

If you want to know more, check out the Planet Ark site.