Snow blankets Saudi Arabia and Algeria as temperatures plummet
A man walks along a path following heavy snowfall in the village of Medea, 100km south of Algiers, on February 14, 2012 [FAROUK BATICHE/AFP via Getty Images]
January 19, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Snow fell in Saudi Arabia and Algeria at the weekend as temperatures plummeted to below freezing. Residents of the southern Aseer region in the Kingdom also saw an extremely rare snowfall on Thursday when temperatures dropped as low as minus 2
o Celsius in the mountainous region, the lowest recorded level in half a century.
Local residents and foreigners rushed to the area to see the snow-covered desert and surrounding hills, reported