Is there winter in Africa?

There is winter in Africa, and it will snow in some parts of Africa in winter. It snows in parts of Africa, and so does Egypt. Apart from the accident in Egypt, it will snow in Morocco, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia and Lesotho in Africa.

Most people have a deep misunderstanding about Africa. For example, they think that Africa is like summer all year round and the climate is hot. Actually, it is not. There are also winters and even snows in some parts of Africa. The hot climate is seasonal and regional, not the whole of Africa. There must be snow in the tropics, above the snow line of Kilimanjaro, the first peak in Africa, mainly due to topography, and it is in the alpine region.

With the equator as the center, the climate in Africa is symmetrically distributed in the north and south, and the temperature decreases with the increase of the dimension from the equator. But on the whole, Africa's areas with annual average temperature above 20 degrees account for 95% of the whole country's area, and more than half of them are hot all the year round. Even in Azizia province of Libya, there is an extreme high temperature of 57.8 degrees, which is the highest temperature in the world where human beings live.

Africans who are used to high temperature are extremely uncomfortable in low temperature environment. For example, in the 20-degree weather where normal people can wear short sleeves or long sleeves, Africans have put down jackets on their bodies.

Africa is short for Africa. There are many interesting legends about the origin of the word Africa: one legend is that,

In ancient times, there was also a chief named Afriks who invaded North Africa in 2000 BC and established a city called Afrikia there. Later, people called this large area Africa. Another legend is that "Africa" is the name of a goddess worshipped by Berbers living in North Africa.

This goddess is a patron saint. It is said that as early as BC 1 century, Berbers found the statue of this goddess in a temple. She is a young woman in an elephant skin. Since then, people have taken the name of the goddess "Africa" as the name of the African continent.

There is also a saying that the word Africa comes from the Latin aprica, which means "the sun is very hot". Compared with Greece and Rome on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, the sun in North Africa is really much hotter. In addition, afri is now a common name in North Africa and Carthage, and it is generally considered to be related to Phoenician afar, "dust". However, in 198 1, there is a new saying that the word comes from Berber ifri, that is, "cave", which refers to the cavemen in this area.

However, after the ancient Romans defeated the Carthaginians through three Punic wars, they continued to expand and established African provinces, and the meaning of this name continued to expand. At first, the name was limited to the northern part of the African continent. By the 2nd century AD, the Roman Empire's territory in Africa had expanded from the Strait of Gibraltar to the whole northeast of Egypt. People call all the Romans or aborigines who live here Africans, which means Africa. This place is also called "Africa", and later it refers to the African continent.