2013 Middle East cold snap
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The 2013 Middle East cold snap, also referred to as Alexa, refers to the winter storm that hit the Middle East in December 2013, affecting Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt.
Two people pulling a cart of bread on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, December 12, 2013.
Snow-stranded automobiles in Har Adar, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, December 2013.
Graupel
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Graupel, also called soft hail, hominy snow, granular snow, snow pellets or popcorn snow, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowfla
2013 Middle East cold snap
…Armenohori, Farmakas, Kampi, and Sinaoros, completely lost it for extended periods of time. Egypt's capital Cairo witnessed extremely rare snowfall (mostly graupel) on December 13, that the local media claimed to be the first in 112 years. Nighttime temperatures were expected to drop as low as 2 °C (36 °F). Snow…
Graupel pellets in the morning, having fallen the previous day
Falling graupel
Conical graupel particle
Graupel encasing and hiding a snow crystal from view