Brown Snow?

 We had this snow storm hit on the afternoon of Ashley's birthday party that was unlike any other we had ever seen in all of our years of living in a cold climate. It started off normal enough, but after about an hour, I noticed that my windshield would not stay clean. I thought it was weird that so much of the filth from the road was getting kicked up onto my car. But after awhile, I realized that the dirt was in the snow that was falling from the sky. It was disgusting. And it happened to fall on an afternoon when we had all of our cars out of the garage, so they all ended up looking like this.

Not only did it leave the cars looking like we had all gone off roading, but the driveways, sidewalks, streets, houses, and anything else outside also looked like this. Our weather was fairly mild the following day, so instead of waiting in the hour long carwash lines, we hooked up our hose to the house and washed the cars that we drive the most. It was warm, but not warm enough to wash all of our cars. After researching the cause, we learned that high winds to the north of us kicked up a lot of dirt into the air which then stuck to the falling snow and dirtied the world around us. Super annoying!!

This is what the snow looked like after being collected and letting it melt in a cup. Really gross.