Lebanon Battered by Storm
A snowstorm lashed Lebanon on Wednesday as high winds reached 85 kilometers per hour and heavy rains drenched the Lebanese coast causing bumper-to-bumper traffic in several areas.
The Meteorology Department said the snowfall at 1000 meters could reach 800 meters above sea level on Thursday. Temperatures reached 6 degrees on the coast and below zero on mountain tops.
The wind damaged the façade of a bank in Maameltein, north of Beirut, according to Voice of Lebanon radio station. There were no reports of other material damages or injuries, it said.
The National News Agency said, however, that the rains caused heavy damages to crops in areas near the southern port city of Tyre.
Waves reached four-meters high in the city’s coast, NNA said.
Rains snarled traffic in Beirut and its entrances and heavy snow blocked several roads in the mountains across Lebanon, media reports said.
The storm is expected to last till Friday.
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