No snow

Apparently no snow has fallen this winter yet in Afghanistan, which is really very unusual. It also means there will be less water in the spring and the summer. My Afghan fixer tells me farmers are already worried about a drought this year. Never mind the misery of all the bankrupt farmers, that's a potential security disaster waiting to happen. Because guess what all the jobless men will get up to. The war in Helmand in 2006 and 2007 was partly due to a massive drought which uprooted many of the farmers and turned them to the Taleban.