Sign? First Snow In Baghdad In 100 Years
Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.
Rare snowfalls were also recorded in the west and centre of Iraq, plunging temperatures to zero degrees Centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and even colder, an official said.
The snow in Baghdad, which melted as it hit the ground, began falling before dawn and continued until after 9 am, residents said.
“Snow has fallen in Baghdad for the first time in about a century as a result of two air flows meeting,” said a statement by the meteorology department.
“The first one was cold and dry and the second one was warm and humid. They met above Iraq.”
The director of the meteorology department, Dawood Shakir, told AFP that climate change was possibly to blame for the unusual event.
“It’s very rare,” he said. “Baghdad has never seen snow falling in living memory.
“These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold.”
Snow was also reported in the mountainous Kurdish north of the country, where falls are common.
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I guess hell is freezing over eh….this isn’t one of Ahmadinejadh’s signs of the apocalypse, is it?
January 11th, 2008 at 10:13 amIts a sign that oppression has left that country for the first time in a long ass time. The evil has lifted so now they can get snow again
January 11th, 2008 at 10:18 amGLOBAL WARMING!!! Bring the troops home NOW!!!
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I couldn’t type that w/o laughing my ass off.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:19 amGLOBAL WARMING!!
I hear the magnetic poles are flipping also, doomed! we are doomed I tell ya!
January 11th, 2008 at 10:26 amGreat pic. Hell is indeed freezing over. Global warming? LOL. Another sign that civilization is breaking out across Iraq. Too bad Dhimis…you were wrong…now even The Great I Am is against you….more LOL….
January 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amSend Algore there, he will blow some hot air and stop it.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pmMy son called and woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me it snowed in Baghdad. He said the Iraqis were “trippin’”. My first thought was.. oh great now the global warming nuts are going to be at it. LOL
I sure do hope it is a sign… I hope a good one that the situation will be cleaned up soon. I know better but I can hope.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pmRemember the scene in The Wizard of Oz … The poppy field … How the snow fell and made everything all right?
I believe it’s a good omen …
January 11th, 2008 at 2:55 pm