Why there is no snow in Africa?

Answer 1

Because the globe is not enough warm yet...I guess...

Answer 2

About 20 years ago ago the Polar Bears that used to inhabit the country's of Uganda and Kenya left Africa because of a lack of food. They did not have enough penguins and seals to eat that normally swam in the icy waters around Africa. Previous to 1990 bountiful snow and ice was common in those areas of Africa. However, thanks to America and other wasteful industrialized countrys--Global Warming overtook all of Africa and the resulting heating of the African atmosphere meant that no more blizzards or even a minor snowfall could ever occur there anymore. Not only did the Polar Bears have to go to another land (they swam to the island of Sicily), but all the ski resorts closed up due to the onslaught of the Global Warming disaster. So, sadly thanks to Americans and others creating way too many carbon oxide pollutants, Africa no longer enjoys the fun-filled winter festivals that it once knew when the snow used to be so prevalent. Not having the ski resorts to work in put a lot of natives out of work as well. As a result, many turned to joining bands of marauders destroying the quaint villages of happy tribesman and butchering the inhabitants of many Zulu, and Zimbabwe clans. Being out of work with no snow falling can change a fella I guess.

Answer 3

There is snow in many parts of Africa on mountains. Africa is not "on the equator", it lies over more than 70° of latitude from about 35°N to 35°S. Compare this with the USA which covers a mere 55° of latitude from the north coast of Alaska to the Florida keys, The contiguous USA is about 24° of latitude which, compared with Africa is tiny. 24° will get you from the Mediterranean to the Niger/Nigerian border. The USA is very small compared with Africa.

Answer 4

It doesn't snow in Africa because it is too hot there. The only part in Africa where it snows is at the top of the mountains such as the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Answer 5

Hey, "coolandcheep", I hope you're kidding. There is snow at the South Pole, right? And, of course there is snow in the mountains of Africa, too. Being below the equator has nothing to do with it.

P.S. To "Dennis C" (below). That's hilarious! I just hope that other posters don't take it seriously (I'm afraid that some will). Polar bears in Sicily. Gotta love that one.

Answer 6

Snow is usually the result of the warm air associated with an extratropical cyclone (low pressure area, as in the diagram above) flowing up and over the cold air surrounding part of the cyclone.

The air being lifted, combined with the abundant water vapor available from the warm air mass the rising air originates from, causes clouds to form. The cloud water (or cloud ice) is collected by falling ice particles, which grow as the super-cooled cloud water freezes onto them. (Even at temperatures as low as -40 degrees F, tiny cloud water droplets remain liquid, until they become attached to an ice particle, and then they freeze.)

The ice particles also grow as some of the water vapor in the surrounding air collects and freezes on them.

The falling ice particles in the clouds grow and combine together to become so large (called aggregates) that their fall speed exceeds the upward flowing air speed in the clouds, and they then fall out the bottom of the cloud, reaching the ground if they do not re-evaporate.

The more water vapor there is available to the cloud, and the stronger the updrafts that cause this water vapor to condense into cloud water or ice particles, the more likely it is that snow will form within the cloud, and that the snowfall accumulation could be large.

So, a cold, cloudy day with no snow indicates that there is either not enough water vapor available to the cloud, or that the rising motion creating the cloud is not enough to cause snow (or both). A heavy snowfall results from abundant water vapor combined with strong and persistent rising motion in the clouds.

Snow can also form from very cold air flowing over a large ice-free lake, a situation called lake effect snow.

In mountainous regions, air being forced to rise as it flows up and over the mountain can cause large snowfall accumulations. Precipitation caused by this mountain-forced ascent is called orographic precipitation. In regions where this occurs, the downwind side of the mountain often receives little or no snow, since most of the water vapor in the air has already been removed as snow on the upwind side of the mountain.

Answer 7

It does snow in Africa.

Answer 8

It does snow but most places rarely do. Since its around the equator, the temperatures are often to warm for snow

Answer 9

There is in some parts of it during different times of the year.

Additional: Don't you just hate it when people like IGNORANT GIRL are so starved to be first with their answers that they answer with a word or a letter, then edit their reply after taking the time to find the information they want or writing out a real response?

Answer 10

it does snow in africa

Answer 11

There is on Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.