Snow and severe frosts hit in the last period large parts of the northern Middle East and Turkey /https://mkweather.com/300c-in-iraq-children-in-refugee-camps-are-crying-from-extreme-winter/; https://mkweather.com/extreme-frosts-hit-kurdistan-397c-in-turkey-and-274c-in-iran-gaziantep-with-05-meters-of-snow-3000-vehicles-stuck-in-a-blizzard/; https://mkweather.com/syria-lebanon-several-children-dead-in-refugee-camps-after-a-snowstorm-israel-with-severe-floods/; https://mkweather.com/extreme-frosts-hit-the-middle-east-damascus-syria-80c-turaif-saudi-arabia-60c-kirkuk-iraq-47c-nekhel-egypt-45c/; https://mkweather.com/frozen-animals-in-turkey-a-tax-for-40c-frosts//, with very bad effect in refugee camps in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.
Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Jordan are moreover after historic winter blizzard /https://mkweather.com/the-worst-blizzard-in-greece-since-1968-athens-50-cm-istanbul-turkey-36-cm-of-snow-florina-173c-and-a-rare-tornado-near-a-snow-covered-island/; https://mkweather.com/antalya-mugla-and-dalaman-turkey-with-the-first-snowfall-since-1993-a-country-with-the-strongest-power-outages-in-history/; https://mkweather.com/jerusalem-under-the-snow-a-possible-strongest-snowstorm-since-1992-the-traffic-collapse/; https://mkweather.com/heavy-snowfall-in-amman-jordan//.
Severe winter hit north-African countries, too /reports from Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco: https://mkweather.com/tunisia-frosts-on-the-coast-and-in-the-saharan-desert/; https://mkweather.com/egypt-with-the-coldest-winter-in-10-years-8c-colder-than-average-so-far-the-first-frost-in-kharga-oasis-in-all-time-history/; https://mkweather.com/snow-in-6-provinces-in-morocco-from-only-1000-masl//.
In one of the links above, we mentioned extremely cold temperature measured before a short time (18. January 2022) in Turaif, Saudi Arabia, -6,0°C.
Together 10 frost days since the half of January 2022 appeared in Turaif.
According to the newest information from the kingdom, this temperature was the lowest in Saudi Arabia in 30 years /https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/watch-water-from-camels-eye-freezes-as-snow-blankets-six-cities-in-saudi-arabia-1.85134663/.
Snow cover according to the portal appeared in 6 cities in Saudi Arabia.
Freezing temperatures from -1 to -3°C are even expected during the last January 2022 days in the Riyadh region.
In the capital, Riyadh, was in the last week measured midday temperature only +8°C.
Very cold weather before a few days reported UAE, Qatar, and Oman, too.
In Oman, only +4,4°C was measured, in UAE +5,6°C and in Qatar +6,6°C appeared.
UAE these days reports red warnings before fogs and temperatures in the Dubai region are forecast to drop to only +8°C.
Very cold conditions in the region should persist until early March 2022 /according to forecasts for a wider European region: https://mkweather.com/ecmwf-forecast-for-europe-until-14-march-2022-early-spring-for-the-british-islands-scandinavia-continental-europe-and-iberia/; https://mkweather.com/early-spring-should-be-peaking-around-13-27-february-2022-nao-in-march-2022-will-be-even-warmer//.
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