Heavy snowfall.

Saudi Arabia Snowfall on the Dhahr ridge in Tabouk.

The heaviest snowfall in 45 years hit Tokyo over the weekend.

The record latest snowfall in Almaty was on 17 June 1987.

A warning for heavy snowfall was issued. So all roads were closed.

On Thursday, November 24, Tokyo experienced its first November snowfall in 54 years.

If the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in summer, the melting and the snowfall will probably increase sharply.

Eastern and southern Tajikistan also experienced heavy snowfall, with nearly 2 million people affected in the Rasht valley.

Heavy snowfall closed several key link roads, hampering the delivery of badly needed foodstuffs to populations in the south.

In August 2004, the drought in Afghanistan entered its sixth year as rain and snowfall remained significantly below average.

Stand outside and feel the bite of the first wind coming down from the high divide that promises snowfall.

The clock is ticking. In two months, the mountains will get their first snowfall and temperatures will plummet below zero.

Heavy rains in the Khatlon region further damaged the infrastructure that had already been adversely affected by high levels of snowfall.

In two months, the mountains will get their first snowfall and temperatures will plummet below zero. Millions may have been made homeless.

One local official called it the heaviest snowfall in 50 years. Thousands have been rescued and taken to emergency shelters or hospitalized.

Heavy snowfall can occur in winter and early spring on high ground, and occasionally settles to great depth away from the hills.

Snowfall may happen between April and September, especially to the north, but it is not very common (between one and five times a year).

Early in 2005 most of the Central Asian region suffered from adverse weather conditions heavy rains and snowfall were reported throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from

Warm and humid air will increase melting of ice in low regions at the edges of the ice sheets while boosting snowfall over cold high regions in the interior.

Because Mongolia was vulnerable to snowfall, drought, flash floods and earthquakes, it had adopted a new law to strengthen its disaster management system and created the National Disaster Management Agency.

The snow, although rare in Saudi Arabia, is more common in Tabuk, in northwestern Saudi Arabia and close to the Jordanian border, where snowfall is recorded once every three to four years.

In addition to changes in sealevel, the IPCC predicts that climate changes due to the enhanced greenhouse effect could include significant changes in the timing, location, and distribution of rainfall and snowfall.

This change in the amount and pattern of rainfall has serious implications for many economic activities, as well as for countries preparedness to handle emergencies such as large scale coastal flooding or heavy snowfall.

It would be unfortunate if China and India were to impoverish themselves by ceasing to burn coal, only to have the resulting decrease of snowfall over Greenland and Antarctica cause sea levels to rise faster.

After facing six years of drought the snowfall was initially seen as welcome relief. However, in view of the severity of the winter it now has to be expected that the melting of the snow and the saturation of the ground will result in widespread flooding.

Rainfall and snowfall increase on the mountains as these rise, perhaps at a rate of a few millimeters per year (at a growth rate of 1 mm year, a 5,000 m tall mountain can form in 5 million years, a time period that is less than 10 of the life of a typical collision zone).