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Baghdad, Karbala carpeted in snow after a rare snowfall

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BAGHDAD: Residents of  Iraq’s capital Baghdad raced to have photos and snowball fights on Tuesday as the Iraqi capital woke covered in white by just its second snowfall in a century.

The last recorded snowfall in the city was in 2008, however it was a snappy and generally slushy one. Before that it had been a century since Baghdad saw any snow. Iraqis youthful and old said it was the first occasion when they had ever experienced snow falling in Baghdad. The city’s famous palm trees were gently delineated in white. People stopped on their way to work to snap pictures and start snowball fights.

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“Snowfall may proceed until Wednesday given the cold weather,” said Amer al-Jaberi, media head of the Iraqi Meteoro­lo­gical Center. He further added that “This cold wave originated from Europe,”.

The individuals of Baghdad are more used to warm than cold. The most elevated temperature rec­orded in the capital was a high of 51 degrees Celsius (124 degrees Fahrenheit). A record it has approached quite a few times in the last few years.

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South of the capital, snow additionally covered Karbala, which draws pilgrims from all over the world to its famed shrines of Imam Hussain(AS) and Hazrat Abbas(AS) and other martyrs of Battle of Karbala.

Snowfall is increasingly regular in northern Iraq, where snow secured the war-battered city of Mosul, yet in middle and south of the country enough precipitation is a rare sight.

In 2018, water shortage started a health emergency in the south and centre however the next year, overwhelming downpours made deadly flooding and substantial harm to homes and harvests. Rankling temperatures at that point hit the north activating wild-fires and burning crops.

Iraq lacks funding and infrastructure to withstand the climate change according to experts.

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