Two Cool Videos To Enjoy Even If You're Tired Of Snow

A very rare snowball fight in Baghdad, Iraq this week. The city was hit
by its first snowfall since 2008 and its most substantial
one since 1914. 

It hasn't exactly been the most extreme winter here in Vermont, but I understand if a few of you are already sick of snow and wintry conditions now that we've reached mid-February.

But still, let's face it. Snow can be really awesome.  Just refer back to earlier this month, after that big snowstorm and the skies cleared. All that fresh snow and a full moon and whitened mountains. So fresh! So clean! What's to complain about?

Maybe chopping at the ice from all the mixed precipitation we've had, and the hard packed ice that's now on my truck and driveway from when a foot of compacted snow slid off my roof last night.  But that's just one negative amid the positives o\f winter.

Elsewhere in the world, snow can be awesome, too. I have a couple recent viral videos to prove my point.

The first video is my favorite of the two.  It shows a snow squall a snow squall coming ashore along the Black Sea in the Artvin province of Turkey.

It's not the least bit unusual to see snow in the winter in this part of Turkey, but this incoming snow squall is just amazing. It looks like a solid wall. Watch:



The second video show snow in a place where such precipitation is definitely more unusual.

It snowed in Baghdad, Iraq last week for the first time in over a decade. The last time it snowed there, in 2008, it was a slushy mess that really didn't stick.  This week's snow in Baghdad was the first snowfall there that actually stuck and stayed for awhile since 1914, says USA Today. 

This time of year, Baghdad's normal high temperature is in the mid-60s and overnight temperatures dip into the low 40s. So yeah, this was odd.

The snow gave Baghdad some welcome comic relief from the incessant unrest and violence there.

In Baghdad's Tahir Square, usually a hotbed of demontrations, young men and women threw snowballs at each other, says USA Today.  Politics couldn't totally escape, as people drew anti-government slogans in the snow.

I really love this artistically done video of the snow in Baghdad this week. I hope you do, too: