The year Mashhad was frozen A winter with 24 thousand dead in Mashhad Of course, there have been many such snowstorms, and you can find their signs in many old newspapers. It is stated in a Homeland newspaper dated 21 Sha’ban 1311 (8 March 1272) that the winter cold blackened and killed many people who were traveling or went outside the city gate to hunt, and their bodies were found after a few days. But perhaps the most painful snowfall in Mashhad during the Qajar period can be considered the winter of 1250, an event that caused many people suffering from the destruction of the Turkmens and the seditionists to succumb to death due to famine and scarcity.