Part of Morocco will have to deal with icy scenes this week. After the Netherlands, the North African country now follows with a code orange warning due to snowfall.
The Directorate General of Meteorology (DGM) has warned of a temperature drop in several provinces. Minimum temperatures between -8 and -3 degrees are expected this week.
According to meteorologist Wouter van Bernebeek of Weerplaza, this is the same air bubble that recently hung above our country. “It comes all the way from northern Europe. Last week we had problems here with code orange due to snow and ice.”
Ice cold in the mountains
Meanwhile, the cold air has descended to the northwest of Africa. Before that, the winter bubble caused snowfall on Mallorca and Ibiza. The Spanish newspaper Ultimahora wrote that there was seven centimeters of snow in some places in Majorca. Italy also had heavy snowfall last week. That led to closed schools and roads there.
Majorca residents were surprised by the snow last week.
The winter scenes are not entirely exceptional, but they are striking, says Van Bernebeek. “On the way, the air bubble has warmed up a bit. But in mountainous Moroccan areas it will get quite cold. I do not exclude that snow will fall here and there.” That may even be at 600 meters above sea level, climatologists say.
Morocco’s weather service has declared code orange for the provinces of Ifrane, Taza, Sefrou, Boulmane, Beni Mellal, Azilal, Khenifra, Al Haouz, Midelt and Tinghir. News website Moroccan World News adds that some rainfall is welcome. The country suffered one of the worst droughts ever last summer.
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