Not Your Imagination: 30-Year Record Broken This Week in Israel

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Exceptionally low temperatures were recorded overnight in some parts of the country for the first half of November. In some areas, the night was the coldest recorded at the start of November since the 1990s, and in the Acre area a record not measured since 1995 was broken. In the Shfela and the Jezreel Valley, readings were recorded that had not been measured at this time of year since 1995.

In northern Golan Heights the temperature dropped to about 1.5 degrees Celsius, and in the Acre area to about 4 degrees. Temperatures were 6 to 8 degrees below the November average. In some areas, readings of only 4 to 6 degrees were recorded.

The cold was caused by a weather system that left a dry northerly air flow, combined with cloudless skies. The warming trend began in the last day and will strengthen during the day.