Saudi Arabia's usually sun-baked deserts have been transformed into an unexpected winter scene in recent days, as snow blanketed parts of the Al-Jawf region in the northern Al-Nafūd desert.

I’m here in one of the world’s largest hot deserts - the Arabian Desert. It’s located between about 12 to 34 degrees north of the equator and it occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula.

Saudia Arabia is mostly desert, but the Kingdom hopes to increase its rainfall by using aircraft and drones to drop particles ...