The terrible snow and cold of Mashhad in 1972


What was seen was the repetition of calamity, depression, and despair.” In his travelogue, Captain Marsh English also writes, referring to the conditions of Mashhad in the winter of 1250 A.D.: “It seems that the famine and the cold of the winter have made the work of the people of Mashhad, who have built cemeteries everywhere in the city, “to the extent that only cemeteries are visible to a new traveler to this city.” The year Mashhad was frozen in a very cold winter in the 50s of the 14th century In 1350, he broke the record for cold in Guinness. But exactly one hundred years after this, history repeated itself again, with many times more intensity.