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Topic: rainfall in Israel

April 10, 2013
5:26 pm

Women cool off at the beach during unusually hot weather for the season, March 15, 2013. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Dry months wipe away wet start to winter

Rainfall slows to a trickle after stormy December and January

By Stuart Winer

January 31, 2013
6:01 am

Visitors top up their glasses with treated sea water at a desalination plant near Hadera (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)

For Israel, droughts go down the drain

Water Authority credits desalination advances, more than this year’s remarkably wet winter weather, for country’s new water wealth

By Ron Friedman

January 12, 2013
10:58 am

An illustrative photo of kids playing with toboggans at the Hermon Mountain ski resort (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Israelis hit the slopes following storm of the decade

Thousands flock to the snow-capped Mount Hermon and the lush Banias River and springs

By Michal Shmulovich

January 9, 2013
7:36 am

An ultra-Orthodox jewish man walks in the snow on a Jerusalem street, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem tucks in with a white blanket

Snow piles up on the streets of the capital and surrounding towns

By Times of Israel staff

January 8, 2013
2:08 pm

The Ayalon River flows alongside the flooded Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Jan. 8 (photo credit: Flash90)

Traffic app glitch sends drivers to flooded highway

30-minute commute turns into three-hour nightmare as Waze ignores road closure

By David Shamah

January 7, 2013
9:22 am

A car damaged by a fallen tree in Jerusalem, Monday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Five injured by falling trees as intense rain pelts Israel

Public transportation delays and traffic jams reported throughout the country; Herzliya train station closed; Tel Aviv’s Ayalon River overflows

By Times of Israel staff

January 6, 2013
1:28 pm

An Israeli train station in winter (illustrative photo credit: david55king/Flickr)

Rain brings trains, cars to a halt

Stormy weather floods tracks; rescue crews remove vehicles from deep puddles

By Aaron Kalman

January 6, 2013
6:44 am

Rain in Jerusalem, November 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The City of Gold braces for a blanket of white

After a wet weekend, already-heavy rains expected to intensify, with a chance of snow in the capital on Tuesday

By Times of Israel staff

December 23, 2012
10:54 am

A man takes a swim in the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

Strong weekend rainfall continues record-breaking start to winter

Storm lifts Sea of Galilee to highest December rise for 20 years

By Gabe Fisher

December 21, 2012
10:37 pm

Ultra Orthodox men walk the streets of Jerusalem in the rain on Friday, December 21 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel experiencing wettest winter in years

In past three days, 100 millimeters of rain recorded in the north; Mt. Hermon hit by 30-40 centimeters of snow; Water Authority optimistic on Sea of Galilee water levels

By Ron Friedman

December 18, 2012
9:41 am

The Sea of Galilee, Tiberias (photo credit: Jorg Nicht, Instagram)

As rain pounds the North, Sea of Galilee on the rise

So far, precipitation rates this winter ‘much better’ than expected

By Elie Leshem

November 11, 2012
12:57 pm

A Jerusalem man takes cover from the rain on Friday night. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon / FLASH90)

Stormy border and rainy weather

The Gazan border heats up; former IDF Chief Dan Halutz has a surefire way to end Iran’s nuclear program; and rain drenches the country

By Yossi Nachemi

September 3, 2012
2:47 pm

An exposed pier in the city of Tiberias (photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Summer heat assails Galilee water level

Dead Sea shrinks at fastest pace in recent years

By Aaron Kalman

March 4, 2012
1:54 pm

A man takes a swim in the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

Sea of Galilee rises 30 centimeters in five days

Water level is 3.5 meters shy of its high-level mark

By Michal Shmulovich

February 27, 2012
10:41 am

One of Agrolan's field weather stations (photo credit: Courtesy)

Weather stations report rainfall statistics in 70 locations

A network of field weather stations measures local conditions and posts them online

By David Shamah

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