Let it snow: Golan Heights go white as stormy weather hits Israel
Tel Aviv sees 22 mm of rain in little over an hour, Haifa's Technion hit by reported 87 mm of rain in stormy night that forecasters say will turn into a wet weekend.
By Zafrir Rinat and HaaretzIsrael was hit by considerable rainfall early Friday morning, with snow fall reported in Mount Hermon as well as in all of the Golan Heights.
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Snow in the Golan Heights, Jan. 13, 2012. |
| Photo by: Yaron Kaminsky |
According to weather forecasting firm Meteo Tech, Tel Aviv experienced 22 mm of rain in just over an hour, with Safed seeing 40 mm and the Golan Heights reporting 36 mm of rain.
Even more impressive figures arrived from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. In Haifa, where Army Radio said 87 mm of rain were registered.
Another chilly, but beautiful, outcome of the stormy night was snow, reportedly falling fast and thick all over the Golan Heights and Mt. Hermon, where Army Radio said over a meter of snow was reported.
The stormy weather isn’t expected to leave Israel, with forecasters expecting a wet and cold weekend, as storms drift toward the country’s center and south.
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in the Golan Heights. Is it also snowing in Israel, or only in Syria?
I hope one day Israel liberates the rest of the Golan.
Thank G'd. Excellent news. Hope Kinneret gets a tiny bit refilled and that the water reservoirs get replenished also. Care for the homeless, and rejoice, Israel ! Shabbat Shalom ! Fortuna Benmayor, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Are the Heights technically in Israel? Or are they considered part of occupied Syria?
Snow is falling on a stolen land of yours :)
is Syrian, Arab, and Druze and it always will be, my cousins have lived under zionist occupation their entire lives, what a criminal and sinister creation this zionist project.
Maybe the Israelis will protect your Druze cousin better than Assad... and Syria was offered the Golan for peace and they said NO. Maybe when a new regime is in charge it will be discussed again.