First Snow in 100 Years Falls on Baghdad

[jasons2k]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.
Rare snowfalls were also recorded in the west and centre of Iraq, plunging temperatures to zero degrees Centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and even colder, an official said.

The snow in Baghdad, which melted as it hit the ground, began falling before dawn and continued until after 9 am, residents said.

"Snow has fallen in Baghdad for the first time in about a century as a result of two air flows meeting," said a statement by the meteorology department.

"The first one was cold and dry and the second one was warm and humid. They met above Iraq."

The director of the meteorology department, Dawood Shakir, told AFP that climate change was possibly to blame for the unusual event.

"It's very rare," he said. "Baghdad has never seen snow falling in living memory.

"These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold."

Snow was also reported in the mountainous Kurdish north of the country, where falls are common.

[r22weiss]

"These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold."

What is this person talking about?? Baghdad is supposed to be cold? This shows that it doesn't take much to write an article! Funny, yet sad.

[x-y-no]

"These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold."

What is this person talking about?? Baghdad is supposed to be cold? This shows that it doesn't take much to write an article! Funny, yet sad.

Ummm, no. That's not what he said. He's saying there are extremes happening in each direction in different parts of the world.


That said, I'll once again point out that one can't link any individual event to climate change and that applies as well to this one. It's a rare event - nothing else.

[r22weiss]

Well I took his sentence to be in context with the city of Baghdad, since it is supposed to be warm, yet they had snow. Maybe i miss read it. Anyway, this is no different than when snow fell in Beirut 2 years ago, a rare case.

[Cryomaniac]

Conspiracy theorists are blaming this on "scalar weapons" .

Check out some of the frankly insane posts in this thread (contains soem strong language)

A couple of quotes from it if you don't want to read through it:

Quote from Anonymous Coward 350494:
stfu AL GORE
there is no global warming
its global fu-kery
scalar weapons,,aerosols,, take your pick,,,
can u assholes stop acting so surprized by weird and wacky weather//
geeez, its all controlled. go do some research

Quote from Anonymous Coward 310334:
Ahahahaha Hell is freezing over!!

Interesting to get a different perspective of this stuff

[HURAKAN]

People are just crazy!!!

[GoGoGop]

"These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold."

What is this person talking about?? Baghdad is supposed to be cold? This shows that it doesn't take much to write an article! Funny, yet sad.

Ummm, no. That's not what he said. He's saying there are extremes happening in each direction in different parts of the world.


That said, I'll once again point out that one can't link any individual event to climate change and that applies as well to this one. It's a rare event - nothing else.

You are incorrect. You have no way of knowing whether this was or was not caused by global warming. It may not just be "a rare event." You can't point out an individual event and say it or it is not global warming related. There are so many odd events happening and so many extremely high low temperatures now on a daily basis that it makes it almost certain that some of these incidents are caused by climate change.

[x-y-no]

You are incorrect. You have no way of knowing whether this was or was not caused by global warming. It may not just be "a rare event." You can't point out an individual event and say it or it is not global warming related. There are so many odd events happening and so many extremely high low temperatures now on a daily basis that it makes it almost certain that some of these incidents are caused by climate change.

Hmmmm ... I would have sworn that was pretty much what I said ...

[jinftl]

Pretty amazing video...love when the image the reporter paints of 'something welcome falling from the skies above Bagdad'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cauHQ-TMwRM&feature=related

[KWT]

Wow thats pretty impressive, they've had about as much snow as I have this winter so far...oh dear!

[Cryomaniac]

Wow thats pretty impressive, they've had about as much snow as I have this winter so far...oh dear!

They've had more snow than me! The last time it snowed here was april last year.