Snow in Somalia - In June, page 1

Now whats stranger snowfall in Somalia (Africa) or snowfall in June?

Considering that snowfall has never been reported to ever have fallen in Somalia........there's a first for everything I guess.

No more info than what is posted which was found thru google news...

Snowfall in Somalia reported
Wed. June 01, 2005 10:36 am.

The first snowfall on this part of the world has claimed one life and caused extensive damage to properties. Puntland, northeastern part of Somalia has never recorded snowfall before last night when snow storms with high winds destroyed homes in Rako town.

The storm left a blanket of snow on the ground, something residents had never seen in their lives before. Aside from this unexplained snowfall on this tropical land, Somalia has experienced very strange weather in the past few months.

Floods killed people and forced rivers to overflow banks in almost all parts of the country. Many cities from Hargeisa in the north to Baladweyn in central were affected badly by heavy rains and floods. Many people were killed and thousands of livestock washed away by this strange weather. The country is still struggling to recover from last month’s killer weather.

With no effective central government, Somalia doesn’t have weather prediction or climate monitoring systems in place. Somalis think this unusual weather and last night’s previously unheard of snowfall are part of the global warming phenomena.

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[edit on 2-6-2005 by quadricle]

I think this covers it pretty well.

www.storm2k.org...

It make me wonder if something got lost in the translation from the eyewitness accounts to what got reported.

Example... it was reported that the ground looked as if it were covered with snow.

Ends up being... it snowed.

I think most of us have seen the pics after hail storms have dumped massive amounts of small hail stones. Looks like snow but isn't.

Here is where the "but" comes in. Usually you get hail like that when there is a very shallow layer of freezing (or below) air. It allows more hail to develop and rapidly. Hail produced in the BIG storms could never be mistaken for snow. The little pea sized stones that accumulate to an inch or more can be mistaken. But when has anyone seen this kind of hail produced in a very warm region? That kind of activity is much more common in northern states in early spring.

This is interesting, I followed some excellent info posted on another site regarding the conditions of Somalia on June 1st 2005, the image is taken form Nasa's Rapidfire Modis sytem,

check it out:

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those swirl clouds are extremely strange to me, is that normal?


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