Middle East Snow December 2013

[Patricius Maximus]

Originally Posted by arctic_gardener

The temperature of Kuwait Bay is increasing at 0.6 C per decade. Kuwait's winters and summers have been warming, and annual precipitation has been decreasing. The facts are the facts.

Past performance does not guarantee future results - that fact should be readily apparent by now, in both local and global climate and weather. Besides that, I agree with you - people seem to think Kuwait's winters are something like Mecca's, but their average this time of year is 20/9C. 15/5C is significant cold for Kuwait (5C below average isn't exactly anemic), but it's nothing extraordinary. The extraordinary stuff is well to the west of Kuwait.

[Alkis]

I remember that gfs showed the previous days that this cold would hit Greece and I was happy and then it went to Middle East! I was insulting weather all the day hahahaha but photos are great!

[muslim12]

Kuwait city Is at 29 degrees north its January high is 67 and low is 47 pretty warm to me. the all time record low is 24 which is cold but considering that its at 29 degrees north and very dry and the fact that places in the us at same latitude have seen far colder its not that bad. not to mention the variability isn't much so extremes like 20 degrees below average almost never happen us in the us don't realize how extreme our temp swings are compared to other places. I mean the record low is only 23 degrees below the average which indicates quite a stable climate to me especially considering my average low in January is 31 and the record low is 9 below zero Fahrenheit. and that snow in cairo was actually not snow but proven to be graupel later on.