Allegra said only the larger flakes showed up in the pics.
the smaller swirling snow didnt show up in the pics.
Posted on 01/11/2008 7:30:34 AM PST by tobyhill
BAGHDAD - After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.
For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.
Although the white flakes quickly dissolved into gray puddles, they brought an emotion rarely expressed in this desert capital snarled by army checkpoints, divided by concrete walls and ravaged by sectarian killings — delight.
"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.
"When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in the early '40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad," Abdul-Hussein said, referring to snow as a type of rain. "But snow falling in Baghdad in such a magnificent scene was beyond my imagination."
Morning temperatures uncharacteristically hovered around freezing, and the Baghdad airport was closed because of poor visibility. Snow is common in the mountainous Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, but residents of the capital and surrounding areas could remember just hail.
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Bush’s fault too.....
Alternate headline:
Hell Has Frozen Over
I believe this is the first snow there since 1939.
Allegra posted some pics last night. I dont think any stuck to the ground.
I bet you don’t get any of that in Houston! Why go all the way to Baghdad for snow? LOL!
Sounds like when it snows here (like once every 20 years). It’s so much fun-— it brings out the kid in everyone.
Where’s Al??
Obvious evidence of anthropogenic global warming.
That is too funny! Very clever!
Allegra said only the larger flakes showed up in the pics.
the smaller swirling snow didnt show up in the pics.
You have some snow pics you posted?
That is too cool.
I think this is Gods way of telling Al Gore that he is still in charge..
caused by global warming, of course.
I had a friend over who voted Bush in ‘00 and ‘04 and has had an epiphany since ‘04 the the economy is heading for permanent collapse, basically is an isolationist on foreign policy - that we are an empire, and is a big believer in global warming. I let the others go, outside of stating my opinions, but lost it on global warming. I stated that temperatures have not increased at all in six years. He said that global warming isn’t about temperatures rising. I absolutely lost it at that point.
This pic indicates enough might have stuck to the ground to make a snowball or two.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5huPkYk4bGVvo1Sa1tWeH-tgENiFw
HAAAAA! Get ready for all the “Global Climate Change” stories that will replace all the “Global Warming” hype.
Really a good time for the GOP to be thinking about nominating McCain with his “Stop Global Warming” signs now isn’t it?
Briefly.
Actually, Houston does get snow occasionally.
I lived there between 1980 and 1984 and we had one winter where the tempuratures were below freezing for a long stretch of time and if I remember correctly we had a good snowstorm.
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