Muscovites were frightened of green clouds. The Ministry of Emergencies gave an explanation

In different areas of Moscow and the Moscow Region on Thursday, residents saw greenish clouds. This caused serious concern: there were immediately assumptions that these are the consequences of some kind of emergency - an explosion or emission. As ITAR-TASS reports, in the morning from residents of different areas of the Moscow Region, mainly Podolsk and Chekhov, calls are received about the possible release of hazardous substances, and some have formed a raid on the windows.

An eyewitness Sergei sent photos to Newsru.com in which the green haze is also observed in the very center of the capital.

The spokesman for the press service of the metropolitan GUMChS told RIA Novosti that Muscovites are contacting the “01” phone with messages about the clouds of greenish smoke. “We reassure citizens: this is just pollen from flowering trees,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

- in the evening a yellow-green storm burst out

“Now the birch blooms, and yesterday it bloomed abundantly and at night poured into a huge amount, all the cars literally, not to mention the roads and everything else, were covered with a thick layer of yellow pollen,” said Vladimir Murashov, head of the plant biology laboratory, deputy head of the department of the highest plants of Moscow State University. He noted that light pollen of birch will be in the air for quite some time, because with the wind it can fall to a height of up to 10 thousand meters.

“Flowering will last two weeks, probably mass flowering, and the pollen will probably hang out in the air for a month. It will be less, it will stick, if there are rains, it will leave, of course, partially ... And so, because of her lightness, it soars very much in the air for a long time,” the scientist said.

Murashov also recalled that the pollen of birch is a rather strong allergen, so everyone who suffers from halflenosis, allergies to pollen, take appropriate measures.

On the website of the State Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies, flowering pollen is the main news. "According to the Moscow Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring with Regional Functions, sharp warming in the Moscow region caused flowering of several types of trees at once, as a result of which a yellowish-green plate plate can be observed on the asphalt, windows, machines ... today there is an increase in the content of balanced substances, which is characteristic of this period of the year, and The concentration of specific impurities in the atmospheric air of the Moscow region is within normal limits, ”the official report said.

Bloggers in their repertoire: “The harbinger of the Apocalypse”, “Glucks”, “Chemist E ** Zol”

The greenish tint of the sky over Moscow on Thursday morning became one of the top topics in the blogosphere, NEWSMSK.com notes. Internet users gave free rein to fantasy, expressing guesses about the reasons for such an unusual phenomenon. There were rumors about an emergency at the Moscow Chemical Plant near Moscow, and without apocalyptic sentiments were not.

The first reports of the green sky in blogs were abounded in assumptions that these are "glitches" and vision of vision. They were replaced by disturbing records on Twitter: "Schools in Butovo are closed and driving schoolchildren home due to the explosion"; "They say that in Podolsk a plant explosion, in the south of Moscow a green sky"; "It turns out that in Kaluga a chemical plant e ** zero." There was a video on which the spread of a whole wave of green substance is clearly visible. The nature of the spread of pollen in the air resembles the plot of the fantastic film "Planet of Fear" about the transformation of people into zombies due to the leak of some biological weapon.

There were skeptics that did not believe official comments even after official explanations. “They say that this is caused by pollen. Again they want to hide something from us? Maybe it was a technogenic ejection? The harbinger of the Apocalypse? Do you think the blogger asks under the nickname Rovel-Fer, whose magazine is dedicated exclusively to the end of the world.