Archive video: Riyadh's historic freeze in 2008, after the temperature reached minus 5 degrees

ArabiaWeather.com – Omar Dajani- With the beginning of the square, memories of cold and winter come to our minds, and perhaps the most prominent thing that comes to mind in recent history is the historic wave of ice and frost that struck Riyadh and a large number of regions of Saudi Arabia in mid-January 2008.

The entire month of January at that time was historically cold, and the cold reached its peak on January 17, 2008, when the temperature dropped that day in the capital to minus 5.4 degrees Celsius, which led to the formation of piles of ice and frost, and the occurrence of freezing historically. and wide.