Ancient Roman writers Pliny, Tacitus, & in Acts mention the severe
annual winter storms called  "Euroc'ly-don"? which would carry large
amounts of water South across the Mare Nostrum  and give heavy rain
across North Africa. These frequent winter storms made the sea
impassible, stopping all shipping for the winter months. The storms
coming South from the Alps "on both sides" of the Italian Peninsular
were said to be the most extreme.

   We do know that these ancient sea levels were far lower than in
recent centuries by more than twenty feet. Mark Anthony and Cleo's
temple in Alexandria is well below todays' water level!

    We do know, for instance, that the English Channel was much
narrower before the 11th century with the King owning serious farmland
East of the White Cliffs of Dover. That todays " English Channel's
Dogger Bank were islands, and that the Dutch had no need for dykes.

   For millennia, Pliny, Tacitus & etc say that North Africa was the
grainery of empire. The Sinai was a wilderness. The mountains of
Israel and Lebanon were heavily forested. A very rich "Fertile
Crescent" reached from Egypt North and East through Syria to the
rivers of Iraq. Egypt had vast forests in the North, and green fertile
fields hundreds of miles south into African kingdoms. This most
certainly shows a far different climate from today.
   Some silly no-nothings say Jesus' father Joseph could not have been
a carpenter because Israel had no trees! Willfully ignorant narrative
deluded people!
Maranatha,  Lewis B