Saudi Arabia | Scenes documenting heavy snow falling for the first time in the north of the Kingdom.. Is that true?

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - The northern parts of the Kingdom were exposed during the past week to a toxic weather condition , accompanied by rain showers of varying intensity. Some news platforms and websites circulated scenes of what was said to be rare snowfall and its accumulation in the Hail desert . What is the truth about that?

A majestic papyrus as if you were in the Arctic southwest of Hail pic.twitter.com/G5ruXKd6GW

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What is the truth about snowfall and accumulation in Saudi Arabia for the first time in history?

In this regard, specialists at the Arab Weather Regional Center confirmed that the region did not witness any snowfall, and that what happened was heavy hail showers, and that the scenes and images circulated are of hail showers accumulating in the desert and do not show any snowfall.

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Is it normal for hail to fall in Saudi Arabia with this intensity?

Experts at Arab Weather believe that hail in many regions of the Kingdom is a common occurrence that occurs many times every year, especially in Hail, Qassim, Al-Jawf and the Northern Borders . This is not new, as cases of atmospheric instability are active in these regions during the fall, and cumulonimbus clouds are formed, accompanied by hail showers, which are formed as a result of convection currents, as these currents carry water droplets to the upper layers of the atmosphere with extreme cold, which freezes them and then causes them to fall again towards the ground in the form of hail showers.