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The 2016 Saudi Arabian snowstorm was an extreme weather event in late November 2016, in which parts of the Arabian Desert in Saudi Arabia experienced subzero temperatures, snowfall and flooding. Snow was first reported in northern parts of Saudi Arabia on 23 November.
Saudi Arabia's Köppen climate classification map.. The climate of Saudi Arabia is marked by high temperatures during the day and low temperatures at night. The country follows the pattern of the desert climate, with the exception of the southwest, which features a subtropical highland climate and a semi-desert climate.
The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at , occupying a great oval depression. It is 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and 225 kilometres (140 mi) wide, with an area of 103,600 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi).
A corridor of sandy terrain known as the Ad-Dahna desert connects the An-Nafud desert (65,000 km 2 or 40,389 square miles) in the north of Saudi Arabia to the Rub' al-Khali in the south-east. [ citation needed ] The Tuwaiq escarpment is an 800 km (500 mi) arc that includes limestone cliffs, plateaus, and canyons.
Rank Name Type Image Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra: 14,200,000 [1]: 5,482,651: Antarctica: N/A 2: Arctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra
A road between Oman and Saudi Arabia, [8] [9] through the Empty Quarter, was completed in September 2021. [10] Measuring between 700 and 800 kilometres (430 and 500 miles), it extends from Ibri in Oman to Al-Ahsa in eastern Saudi Arabia. A 160 km (99 miles) stretch of the road is on the Omani side and 580 km (360 miles) on the Saudi side.
The National Center of Meteorology in Saudi Arabia issued a weather warning on April 16 for several regions as moderate to heavy rain, hail and potential flooding was expected.This video was shot ...
Ad-Dahna Desert is the central division of the Arabian Desert. [1] It is a corridor of sandy terrain forming a bow-like shape that connects an-Nafud desert in the north to Rub' al-Khali desert in the south. Its length is more than 1,000 km (620 miles) siding Twaik Mountains from the east and