Saudi Arabia | Video footage of a historic cotton snowfall today in southwestern Saudi Arabia

Written By سنان خلف on 2021/01/11

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - In a rare and unprecedented event, showers of snow fell on the Belsemar Center on Monday morning, 110 km north of Abha.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is reported that Balsammar and large parts of Asir region are still affected by a state of atmospheric instability, accompanied by a significant decrease in temperatures, which approached zero degrees this morning, which worked on snowfall.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Here are some cycled scenes documenting the snowfall of the Palsmer Center today.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Watch‼ ️<br /> In a historical precedent<br /> Cotton snow falls on Balsammar, one of the centers of the Asir region <a href="https://t.co/6sCgB6Hxuy">pic.twitter.com/6sCgB6Hxuy</a></p> - Arab Weather - Saudi Arabia (@ArabiaWeatherSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherSA/status/1348551725033074688?ref_src=t... 11, 2021</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Watch‼ ️<br /> Glory be to God Almighty<br /> A rare snowfall in Balsammar, in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_sr... region<br /> .<br /> &quot;Oh God bless us this feeling in Riyadh&quot; <a href="https://t.co/b594xiZw91">pic.twitter.com/b594xiZw91</a></p> - Arab Weather - Saudi Arabia (@ArabiaWeatherSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherSA/status/1348553078467915776?ref_src=t... 11, 2021</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> From snow today<br /> Beautiful photography showing the moment of unprecedented drop of cotton wool on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B1?src=has... Blasmar</a> in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_sr... region <a href="https://t.co/o8PLIvu7WD">pic.twitter.com/o8PLIvu7WD</a></p> - Arab Weather - Saudi Arabia (@ArabiaWeatherSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherSA/status/1348557869755604992?ref_src=t... 11, 2021</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Not Spain‼ ️<br /> It is Balasmar in the Asir region<br /> Glory be to God <a href="https://t.co/NMl1iTJfyy">pic.twitter.com/NMl1iTJfyy</a></p> - Arab Weather - Saudi Arabia (@ArabiaWeatherSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherSA/status/1348559052490551297?ref_src=t... 11, 2021</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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