Snow Cuts of Villages in Algeria

[kenl01]

Snow Cuts of Villages in Algeria –– 26 Feb 06 - Heavy snow has cut off villages and clogged key arteries leading away from the Algerian capital Algiers for several days, national police said on Sunday. Djelfa, which had 70cm, was "totally paralysed", the Algerian Press Agency reported.

At least 60cm of snow blanketed villages near Djelfa and Medea, respectively 270km and 80km south of Algiers. Only donkeys and mules could ply the roads around the villages.

Snow is unusual in the north African country, but last winter saw snowfalls of more than two meters in several parts of the north-east.

This is second year for record breaking snow and cold in Algeria.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 843347B242

[Aslkahuna]

A warm Atlantic will do that by setting up the ridge over the water which brings deep troughing over Europe into Africa. Also tends to teleconnect with the patterns over the US.

Steve

[kenl01]

wish we could see that snow over here, not OVER THERE

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

It also snowed there last Winter (in January). I know because I use to use a MIDOS (sp?) Sat. image of a partially snow covered Sahara as my Desk Top background until Hurricane Season. This may not bode well for the Atlantic as Summer approaches

[kenl01]

It also snowed there last Winter (in January). I know because I use to use a MIDOS (sp?) Sat. image of a partially snow covered Sahara as my Desk Top background until Hurricane Season. This may not bode well for the Atlantic as Summer approaches

Cool !

In fact, I saved the NASA photo of the snows in the Sahara Desert last January.........

Snow over Northern Africa
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... g_id=12699
Winter weather descended on Northern Africa on January 26 and 27, 2005, leaving parts of Algeria and Morroco white with snow. This rare storm—the worst in over 50 years—brought chaos to the roadways of the normally arid region. As the clouds began to move away on January 28, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured these images of the snow. The top image shows the region in true color, as the human eye would see it. In this image, light clouds blend with the snow-covered ground, making it difficult to tell how much snow is present. The lower image shows the same scene in both visible and short wave infrared light. The infrared bands separate cloud and ice, with cloud appearing peach and orange, and ice and snow appearing dark red. Vegetation is a dark green, while the bare desert is turquoise. In this image, the snow extends from the Mediterranean Coast in the north to the northern reaches of the Sahara Desert in the south. !!!!!!!!

NASA images courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Both the true and false color images are available in additional resolutions.