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Rare Snowstorm Hits the Middle East

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JERUSALEM (AP) — A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights.

The weather in Jerusalem topped local newscasts, eclipsing a government report on Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.

Snow falls in Jerusalem once or twice each winter, but temperatures rarely drop low enough for it to stick. The Israeli weather service said up to 8 inches of snow fell in the city.

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Don't the folks in the Holy Land know that AlGore says the World is supposed to be warming on a Global scale.


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[edit on 30-1-2008 by Alxandro]

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