{"id":228000,"date":"2021-02-22T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228000"},"modified":"2021-02-24T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:07:15","slug":"saudi-arabia-hit-by-rare-blizzard-as-snow-covers-areas-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228000","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia hit by rare blizzard as snow covers areas around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yaron Steinbuch \u2013 New York Post Feb 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>These camels are taking their lumps in Saudi Arabia, which was hit by a blizzard Thursday, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The dreary dromedaries \u2013 with their humps resembling snowy mountains \u2014 were captured on video gazing around their surroundings during the surreal storm.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKGLa9TETtQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, residents of Tabuk and the adjoining mountainous region enjoyed the winter wonderland as the popular holiday destination was socked with snow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/world\/watch-snowfall-blizzard-hit-saudi-arabia\">the Khaleej Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and tourists, including some who drove from the UAE, flocked to the area to enjoy the weather, which is an annual phenomenon, according to Al Arabiya.<\/p>\n<p>The winter season in the kingdom is called Kashta, or season for camping.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s highs in Saudi Arabia were 56 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low of about 36 degrees in the Tabuk area.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, snow also blanketed parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Israel, covering areas it has not reached in years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/18\/saudi-arabia-hit-by-a-rare-blizzard-as-region-sees-snow-fall\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this more evidence of \u201cglobal warming\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ClimateGate","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228001,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228000\/revisions\/228001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}