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| Snow on Hamra, Beirut, in the sixites (source) |
And that’s what the Ministry of Education decided as well;
stay at home. And thus my children – after a holiday of 14 days and 1 day of
school – are back at home again. As far as they are concerned, the weather can
stay like that until May, when it is beach time again.
Snow is expected today on altitudes as low as 300 meters!
This means we’ll be very cold in Beirut as well. Cold is a relative
term of course. 7 degrees Celsius in Holland is do-able; here in Beirut it
means you’re going to freeze your ass off as houses are not built at all for
this kind of weather.
Actually, the whole town is not built for this kind of
weather. Beirut is on the coast, and many parts of it are pretty much near sea
level. We've had heavy and constant rain for most of the past 3 days, all of
which is now running down the mountains into the sea. However, the wind is pushing
up the waves against the coast, and as a result the rain water cannot run all off
into the sea, and it all converges right here in Beirut. Traffic comes to a halt as many roads near the
coast flood, people don’t make it to work, and the rush hour is only made worse
by all these children being transported to and from school. Solution: close
schools.
And now we’re waiting for snow in Beirut. I for one would
love to see that, it would make me feel right at home.
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| Snow in my neighborhood in Holland in 2010 (source) |
It won’t stay that long, if it happens at all. It is a very unusual occurrence; the last time Beirut saw snow was somewhere in the sixties.
Don't you just love this weather!
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