Anna Zacharias
January 25. 2009 1:59PM GMT
The National.ae
Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday.So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
According to the RAK Government, temperatures on Jebel Jais dropped to -3°C on Friday night. On Saturday, the area had reached 1°C.
Major Saeed Rashid al Yamahi, a helicopter pilot and the manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, said the snow covered an area of five kilometres and was 10cm deep.“The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable, with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow,” Major al Yamahi said.
“The snowfall started at 3pm Friday, and heavy snowing began at 8pm and continued till midnight, covering the entire area in a thick blanket of snow. Much of the snow was still there even when we flew back from the mountain this afternoon. It is still freezing cold up there and there are chances that it might snow again tonight.”
Aisha al Hebsy, a woman in her 50s who has lived in the mountains near Jebel Jais all her life, said snowfall in the area was so unheard of the local dialect does not even have a word for it.
Hail is known as bared, which literally translates as cold. “Twenty years ago we had lots of hail,” said Ms al Hebsy. “Last night was like this. At four in the morning we came out and the ground was white.”Jebel Jais was dusted in snow on Dec 28, 2004, the first snowfall in living memory for Ras al Khaimah residents.
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I know the position of the global warming alarmists ... warm in places that were cold and cold in places that were warm.
Except facts and reality seem to interfere with their position (however unstable their position).
Australia - one of the mildest and coolest summers in forty years, until the end of January and now it has become unbearably hot. Such fluctuations are more indicative of changes in weather, not changed in weather.
Chile - one of the mildest summers in recorded history
Afghanistan - one of the dryest and coldest winters in the last thirty years. Food/animal loss during winter due to freezing temperatures: 100,000 cattle and other livestock.
Petersburg, Russia - For only third time in the last 100 years, the port was frozen for several days.
Canada, Alberta - temperatures in northern Alberta, for two weeks straight, fell below -38 degrees. The previous record was one week, and that was held for the last 130 years.
Northwest Territories - one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recorded history (and they said that last year). -35 degrees - they reach as a high, and snow - feet of snow a day.
Those glaciers that were melting - apparently, they are refreezing at a rate not anticipated by the anti-capitalist Global Warming crowd - University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center released conclusive satellite photos showing that Arctic ice is back to 1979 levels. Even more than that - measurements of Antarctic ice now show that its accumulation is up 5 percent since 1980.
Let's get it in perspective -
Colder in cold places, more ice where ice grows, and colder in warm areas.
Global Warming?
Ha.
The anti-capitalists will have to try again. A better choice - the world is freezing. Except that would require more burning of industry and fuel and that isn't anti-capitalist enough.
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