| Saudi Arabia has been seeing many incidents of snowfall this year, with videos circulating on social media showing camels covered in snow | Other bystanders can be seen in the background of the shot, as cars stand stationary at the bottom of the drift |
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| Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense issued weather warnings for snow showers across much of the country last week, and has warned that more could fall in Tabuk this week | A remarkable video showing the aftermath of snow and dust storms in Saudi Arabia has set stomachs growling over social media, with many viewers likening the scene to a gargantuan tiramisu |
The footage was originally posted to TikTok by user x509o at the weekend, and it has amassed hundreds of thousands of views online, after going viral on the platform and being picked up by an array of accounts on social media.
14| Pristine snow in Tabuk area, northern Saudi Arabia where it holds a number of big development projects, heritage sites and tourist attractions | And it isn't the only footage of the phenomenon that has made its way to social media over the past week, with another video showing a person playing with the sand-covered snow in Tabuk, a mountainous area in the northwestern region of the Gulf country |
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| Quite spectacular scenery with snow in the hills north of Saudi Arabia then blasted with a massive dust storm on top of the snow |
The reaction to the video has been dominated by food jokes, "Dessert in the desert" being one such slogan, though others have compared the scene to something that you'd expect to see on the surface of Mars.
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