Kazakhstan has a cold winter which ensures it has powdery snow until late in the season.
"Then the rainiest June since the 1950s helped the spread of downy and powdery mildew" he told The Telegraph.
But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow.
When good pastry flour is treated in the same way, it will feel smooth and powdery.
The powdery drift had filled its course to the level of the dreary expanse!
Faster and faster the little boat traveled, its runners throwing up a powdery dust.
It was so dry and cold that the powdery snow overlying the crust rustled under our ski like autumn leaves.
