Snow is in the forecast for Wednesday as well, over the hilly areas in the center of Israel, Jerusalem and the Hevron Hills by the afternoon. No significant accumulation is expected.
Heavy rain and wind whipped through the trees on Tuesday in Haifa, the Galilee and Tel Aviv in what forecasters promised is a taste of what is predicted from the north to the south on Wednesday.
More than two inches of rain flooded streets in Tel Aviv and jammed traffic, but no snow fell across the metropolis known by urban designers around the world as The WhiteCity.
According to a spokesman for Magen David Adom, there were 50 percent more traffic accidents Tuesday than generally occur at other times.
Lake Kinneret is in desperate need of this storm. Its water level current stands as minus 212.2 meters below sea level, only 80 centimeters above the lower red line at which a drought is officially declared, one of the largest deficiencies in years.
Meanwhile, North American and European immigrants who today live in the Negev desert were remembering the snowball fights, cold white caves used as “weapons caches” and “forts” of their youth in anticipation of the much-needed precipitation.
Forecasters late in the day on Tuesday dashed their hopes of sheets of white in the sky, however. Heavy rain is now expected in the northern Negev and Eilat.
Heavy rain and wind whipped through the trees on Tuesday in Haifa, the Galilee and Tel Aviv in what forecasters promised is a taste of what is predicted from the north to the south on Wednesday.
More than two inches of rain flooded streets in Tel Aviv and jammed traffic, but no snow fell across the metropolis known by urban designers around the world as The WhiteCity.
According to a spokesman for Magen David Adom, there were 50 percent more traffic accidents Tuesday than generally occur at other times.
Lake Kinneret is in desperate need of this storm. Its water level current stands as minus 212.2 meters below sea level, only 80 centimeters above the lower red line at which a drought is officially declared, one of the largest deficiencies in years.
Meanwhile, North American and European immigrants who today live in the Negev desert were remembering the snowball fights, cold white caves used as “weapons caches” and “forts” of their youth in anticipation of the much-needed precipitation.
Forecasters late in the day on Tuesday dashed their hopes of sheets of white in the sky, however. Heavy rain is now expected in the northern Negev and Eilat.