Men play with snow in Amman January 31, 2008. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jordan on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN)
. световни ски новини : Бели преспи - 02 Февруари 2008 - 17:39
Само за една нощ в края на месец януари снежна буря покри с бяла пелена Йордания, Израел, Палестина, Ливан и Сирия като предизвика радостни емоции сред жителите. Същевремено обаче снегът остави затворени почти всички магазини и училища, а общественият транспорт беше блокиран.
Men play with snow in Amman January 31, 2008. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jordan on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN)
Jordanians play with snow in Amman Thursday Jan 31 2008. Snow blanketed the Jordanian capital and most of the desert kingdom, forcing the closure of schools and banks as the government announced a public holiday. (AP Photo/Mohammad abu Gosh)
Palestinians build a snowman as the snow line can be seen on the edge of the desert on Mount Scopus after a winter storm, near Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. Early Wednesday a rare snowfall hit Jerusalem and the surrounding areas closing schools and businesses. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Residents play with snow at the ancient Bakhous temple in the Roman city of Baalbek in the Bekaa valley during a snowstorm that hit Lebanon and several other countries in the Middle East January 30, 2008. REUTERS/ Ahmed Shalha (LEBANON)
Women play with snow in the ancient Roman city of Baalbek in the Bekaa valley during asnowstorm that hit Lebanon and several other countries in the Middle East January 30,2008. REUTERS/ Ahmed Shalha (LEBANON)
A Lebanese man uses a shovel to remove snow from his car in the town of Aley in the central mountains east of Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Lebanon has been hit with a snow storm that has blocked roads in the mountains and brought heavy rain showers to the capital Beirut and other coastal areas since Monday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Children play with snow in Room village after a snowstorm hit south Lebanon January 30, 2008. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)
Blue berrets with the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol the snow-covered southern Lebanese border town of Marjayoun. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared to weather the latest challenge of his tumultuous term on Thursday after a key government report spared him from a major drubbing over the 2006 Lebanon war. (AFP/Ali Dia)
A Lebanese soldier walks through snow on the Beirut-Damascus highway, in the mountain town of Sofar, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Lebanon has been hit with a snow storm that has blocked roads in the mountains and brought heavy rain showers to the capital Beirut and other coastal areas since Monday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Сняг затрупа и Китай. Цяла седмица обилен снеговалеж предизвика сериозни проблеми в далечния изток. Южнокорейските военни пък използват снега за зимни упражнения.
Soldiers shovel snow at a square outside the Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province February 2, 2008. Emergency crews struggled on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked out for a week by heavy snow as forecasters warned of no quick end to the worst winter weather in 50 years. (Jeff Xu/Reuters)
South Korean Marines make their way through snow during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Yoo Hyung-jae)
Междувременно в сибирския град Красноярск жителите си организират зимни забавления с плуване в ледената вода на река Енисей.
Valentina Klimenkova and her 8-year-old daughter Yulia play in the snow on the banks of river Yenisei during an ice swimming session organised by a local winter swimming club in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk February 1, 2008. The temperature on Friday stood at -14 degrees Celcius (6.8 degrees Fahrenheit). REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA)
Valentina Klimenkova and her 8-year-old daughter Yulia play in the snow on the banks of river Yenisei during an ice swimming session organised by a local winter swimming club in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk February 1, 2008. The temperature on Friday stood at -14 degrees Celcius (6.8 degrees Fahrenheit). REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA)