Posted by Julie Celestial on January 30, 2020 at 08:28 UTC (1 day ago)
Categories: Extreme cold, Featured articles, Severe weather
Parts of Saudi Arabia are shivering through a strong cold snap with chilly winds particularly in the northern regions.
The cold wave started a few days ago and is forecast to go on for two weeks further, weather expert Muad Al-Ahmadi told Al Arabiya.
“The first wave started last Tuesday [January 21], and its climax was on Wednesday and Thursday, and that ended on Friday, while the second wave, which is the strongest and hardest, began Saturday, and would continue till midweek,” he said, urging people to take precaution and safety measures.
Furthermore, Al-Ahmadi noted that this will be the strongest cold snap ever.
HT/KcTaz
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In other news, Greta Thunberg rides a horse in Kazakhstan:
https://imgur.com/gallery/WPlyt7B
The dudes in the TikTok video seem to be enjoying themselves, despite the snow-mageddon. 😉
What is news worthy is that the BBC has missed this and cold events elsewhere, missing the opportunity to send Harrabin on another jolly.
I have to say something inappropriate here. Maybe lifting that ban on women drivers was a bit premature.
Every winter since I started reading newspapers around 1970, some place or another has gotten record cold or record snow, as in record for a day or for a month or for a whole winter or for a single weather event. Usually more than one of the above. Then there is the blizzard that was the greatest on record anywhere in the world according to the Wikipedia article on “Blizzard” at least as of a few years ago, and that happened in Iran in 1972, and it currently mentions that historic blizzard. That Wikipedia article also mentions a large number of blizzards and some snow winters that were the most extreme ever recorded where they happened, in a large number of different years. Then there are the many historic great snowstorms that didn’t have the wind that is part of the definition of blizzard. These are weather not climate, along with the extreme high temperature event in part of Europe last summer and the recent drought in Australia.
Soon the polar vortex will again attack in North America.
Nurse Helen Oakley, 63, posted an emotional video from the bulldozed bluegum plantation in Portland, Victoria, after finding dead koalas among the tree branches. She claimed a logging company ‘bulldozed 140 acres now and have just killed all of our koalas.’
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/02/koalas-killed-trees-loggers-bulldoze-plantation-12167981/?ito=cbshare
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Call Al Gore. Some of the snow that has not melted as he predicted has escaped to Saudi Arabia. The world needs better monitoring of those events. It cannot be that some intrepid snow clouds just dump their load when they are not allowed to. Has nobody told them that they are supposed to be all gone by now?
Shiek Mannhamaddi has ordered hockey sticks . Decided to send hockey team to Olympics. They can practice outdoors.
Extreme cold is the worst kind of warming.
Look you deniers the science is settled!!!!
The hotter it gets, the colder it gets.
What is the matter with you people.
Remember –
On the Arabian peninsula statistically
there’s more people drowning in the Wadis due to torrential rainfall
than dying of dehydration in the deserts.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNT5CjTgnZ5DxOYsWaK_nStj21aO6Q%3A1581674611245&ei=c3BGXp3ADs-qrgTE44OwAg&q=Arabian+peninsula+wadis+drowning+tourists&oq=Arabian+peninsula+wadis+drowning+tourists&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.