Cairo has been transformed into a winter wonderland after a "historic" storm in the Middle East brought a rare threat to Egypt's capital Friday: a blanket of powdery, white snow.
Due to Cairo's low rate pf precipitation and typically above-freezing winter temperatures, snow is an exceptionally unusual weather phenomenon for the North African city. So unusual, in fact, the the Los Angeles Times, citing local news reports, writes that the last recorded snowfall in Cairo was more than 100 years ago.
Ali Abdelazim, and official at the city's meterological centre, confirmed to the Agence France-Presse this is the "first time in many years" that snow has fallen in the Cairo area.
Excited Egyptians took to social media Friday to share photographs of the unusual meterological event.
Due to Cairo's low rate pf precipitation and typically above-freezing winter temperatures, snow is an exceptionally unusual weather phenomenon for the North African city. So unusual, in fact, the the Los Angeles Times, citing local news reports, writes that the last recorded snowfall in Cairo was more than 100 years ago.
Ali Abdelazim, and official at the city's meterological centre, confirmed to the Agence France-Presse this is the "first time in many years" that snow has fallen in the Cairo area.
Excited Egyptians took to social media Friday to share photographs of the unusual meterological event.
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