Only before a few days we informed about extremely low minimum temperatures in Sicily, up to -10,3°C in 670 MASL /https://mkweather.com/103c-near-siracusa-italy-the-coldest-january-day-in-the-hottest-part-of-europe-in-history// and the lowest temperatures in the hottest city in Europe – Siracusa, in all-time history.
Extremely cold air has however shifted above the African part of the Mediterranean, too, with frosts along the Tunisian coast and in Tunisian deserts.
Only -0,2°C was measured on 27. January in Tunisian coastal city Hammamet.
From other stations, below -2,0°C, in the last period appeared the next records: El Kef, 518 MASL, -2,7°C on 27. January 2022, Kebili on 27, January 2022 (southern part of Tunisia), 44 MASL, -2,2°C, Kasserine on 27. January 2022, 707 MASL, -2,8°C, Gafsa, 313 MASL, on 20. January 2022, -2,8°C, and Zaghouan, 156 MASL, 27. January 2022, -2,1°C.
In Tunis- Chartage, only +3,0°C was measured on 23. January and +3,1°C on 27. January 2022, which is only 5°C above the all-time cold record for the city.
Higher elevated parts of Tunisia received in the last weeks even rare snowfall.
Meanwhile, from Egypt, the coldest winter in a decade is reported, with temperature anomalies 7-8°C below winter average /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//.
The snowfall the 5th time in around 50 years appeared in Ain Sefra, Algeria, too /https://mkweather.com/snowing-in-sahara-is-more-and-more-frequent-4-of-5-snowfalls-in-ain-sefra-algeria-occurred-after-2016-including-the-last-days-batna-algeria-70c//.
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//.
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.
Severe winter conditions should continue according to the newest estimates will be lasting in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia shorter than in Libya, Egypt, Turkey, and the Middle East /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//.
Illustration picture: https://www.tunisiatourism.info/en/articles/neige-et-montagne-dans-le-nord-ouest-tunisien