When is afghanistans winter

East Oceania All the countries. Climate - Afghanistan Average weather, temperature, rainfall, when to go, what to pack. Index Introduction Northern plains - Mazar-i-Sharif North-central - Bamyan , Kabul , Herat South - Kandahar Best Time What to pack Introduction In Afghanistan, the climate is usually arid continental , with cold and relatively rainy winters and a rainy peak in spring and hot and sunny summers.

However, there are substantial differences depending on area and altitude: the south is desert, many areas are rather cold because of altitude, and the far east is relatively rainy even in summer, since it is partly affected by the Indian monsoon. Precipitation is generally scarce, at semi-desert or desert levels, except in the eastern regions, where it exceeds in some areas millimeters 20 inches per year, while in the far east, near the border with Pakistan Kunar and Nurestan provinces , it even reaches 1.

Now the snow is beginning to settle on the nearby mountain-tops and there is a new sharpness in the air. The winter will very soon be here, and huge numbers of people like Fatema and her family will be on the very brink of catastrophe.

Afghanistan, its future, and why China matters. Image source, Getty Images. Millions of Afghans have become dependent on food provided by organisations like the World Food Programme. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. His analysis of the situation was alarming. Her husband died of stomach cancer not long ago. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter.

Related Topics. Afghanistan Taliban. There was a drought in Afghanistan in the last couple of years of the American occupation, so many poor Afghans were already vulnerable before the events of last summer. It's always the poor who go hungry or starve when food is scarce and the prices go up. But the proximate cause of the impending famine was the chaos of the American evacuation in August.

As the panic played out on American screens and the sense of humiliation mounted, the Biden administration made one thing clear. That posed a big problem for the new regime, because foreign aid covered three-quarters of public spending in the country, but it was hardly a surprise. It's a whole different thing to freeze all Afghanistan's own money that is deposited with American and other Western banks. It's mostly unspent aid money that the previous regime hadn't spent or stolen yet, but it's still Afghan money and it now belongs to the new government of Afghanistan: the Taliban.

That's the freeze that really matters. Afghanistan's domestic economy has virtually collapsed, but there's enough money in those frozen accounts to pay for imported food that would see 40 million Afghans through the coming winter without many deaths from starvation. So why won't the US government release it? Cynics would suggest that it's because the United States never forgives governments and countries that successfully defy it, and point to Cuba as Exhibit Number One: a year trade embargo.

But cynicism is wicked. We should accept Western countries' explanation for holding onto Afghanistan's money at face value. US President Joe Biden avoids addressing this issue himself, but State Department Ned Price said last month that these funds are among the "carrots and sticks" that the US has to influence the Taliban's conduct. Another administration official said that "releasing the reserves is no guarantee that the Taliban will actually use it effectively to solve problems.