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A man poses for a picture next to a snowman outside a forested area in the Sidi al-Hamri region of Libya’s eastern Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) upland region, about 200 kilometres east of Benghazi, on February 16, 2021.
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It snowed in the Middle East on Wednesday, covering parts of Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and Israel in rare white blanket. The region is known more for being dry and hot than snowstorms. But a huge dip in the jet stream similar to what’s happening in Texas allowed polar air to plunge from the Arctic into the Middle East where it interacted with a storm to create surreal scenes.
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