Karbala Gets its Second snowfalls in 100 Years.
Karbala is a city in central Iraq , located about 100 km , Southwest of Baghdad , and a few Dozen miles east of lake. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate & has an Estimated population of 700,000 people. Snowfall may continue until wednesday given the very cold weather, said Amer Al- Jaberi to media he is the head of the Iraqi Meteorological center. Snowfall is more common in northern Iraq where snow covered the war battered city of Mosul, but in the center and south there is rarely enough precipitation . Iraq has been hit by a succession of extreme weather events in recent years.