Apparently it snowed in Eritrea 10 days ago. The climate has gone to h***!

[applegrove]

[liberal N proud]

1. Where is Eritrea?

Saudi Arabia?

[applegrove]

2. Horn of Africa.

[rurallib]

3. that is really spooky - they are northern hemisphere so it is

summer.
Is it in a mountain?

[applegrove]

4. I was talking to a woman from there. She did not say what part of the country it was in.

[a la izquierda]

5. It was in Asmara...

which is like 7700 feet above sea level, and has a avg. temperature in the 60s in June and July. They get about an inch of precip per month.

[applegrove]

6. But is it snow? usually? She seemed surprised.

[a la izquierda]

7. I don't know.

That's up there in elevation. And I'm not familiar with the geography of the region (I just looked up some weather stats).
But, like snow in LA, if you weren't around when it last happened, it's bound to be surprising.
That said, I just lived through Oklahoma's hottest summer in decades. It's a shame conservatives have politicized climate change.

[csziggy]

8. Apparently it was near Asmara, Eritrea which is at about 7800 feet or so

If it were in some of the mountains near there, I could see snow. According to Weather Underground, the high in Asmara today was 73 F, low tonight will be 54 F, and rainy.