Show colored rain due to material from desert of sahara it 1 ill BOW now well recognized that the fulls falls of colored rain and also of dry dust that liat at rattier rather fre quant interval later vals in southern and central eurove are due lo 10 most case cases to nind vond borne borine material blown ap up froni from the subaru desert several case cases in which venomous enon quantities of solid matter bare bure been carried great dI distance by the winds hase formed the subject of elaborate investigations on the part of meteorologists thus dur ing the three laya flays march 8 to 10 1007 heavy dust storms occurred occur reu in the deserts of son louthern thera algeria and file lie sequel of these torme storms wae was carefully studied by hellmann and Uel A widespread vide spread cyclonic storm 8 centered wr dunlo at the time sucked op up the dust I 1 which was carried corl cori hward by the ands at tigh altitudes siti deposits from tie dust cloud occurred over an area extending as far as 2 miles from he the place 0 of f origin reports Ilc porte collected from hund hundreds retis of observe indicated that 1800 tons of duet dust fell over the continent of and one third of this fell north df of file lie alps As much more ie is balie ed to have fallen over the mediterranean while on the adrice i coast coo st itself the deposit demit 14 1 to have amounted to 1 tons |