Jordan: Borrowed items this time between October and December! November ends Siberian and December starts warm!

Arab Weather - Borrowed days in folklore are seven days; four days from February, and three from March, a period related to the well-known period of Saud (Saad Al Saud), where some warmth comes in February, especially at the end of it, as if it were originally from March, and then cold and rainy days come in March, as if it were originally from February. It is associated with folklore here in Jordan and the Levant with many popular proverbs and famous legends, such as the popular legend that says that man has turned the months of February and March into people who exchange dialogue, where February asks his "cousin" March in his last days to support him for three days to end a whole week of bitter cold and rainy winter that may raise the water level in rivers and floods, and he says to him: "March, my cousin, bring your three on four, let the old woman in the valley knock," and knock means flow in the river. According to the legend, the old woman angered February when she told her sheep that February no longer had rain and floods. She said to her sheep: “February the thug has passed and has not taken from me a single ewe or a tether, and we have beaten him on the back with the whip.” February felt insulted and that the old woman, who lives near a flood, was belittling him, as the story claims. This prompted him to increase the intensity of the rain and the bitter cold, and to ask March to help him with three more days, to increase the severity of winter and cold on the old woman and her sheep. The old woman and her sheep drowned in the river due to the bad weather conditions at that time.

This time, the borrowers are like between October and January!

Since last Sunday 11-24-2024, the Kingdom has been affected by an early Siberian cold wave that lasted for several days until Wednesday 11-27-2024, during which the Kingdom witnessed extremely cold weather from the depths of Kuwanin and Al-Murabba’aniyah, and various regions of the Kingdom recorded very low temperatures, the lowest of which was in Al-Shoubak District in Ma’an Governorate, at -3.9 degrees Celsius below zero, while the Queen Alia International Airport monitoring station in the capital, Amman, recorded the lowest temperatures in 13 years, at -3 degrees Celsius below zero!

Weather forecasters at Arab Weather said that this cold wave is considered very early for this time of year if temperatures in November are compared over the past 50 years, as according to the Meteorology Department, such temperature values have been recorded only 60 times out of more than 225 thousand readings.

Weather maps at the Arab Weather Center indicate that the first days of December will witness a successive and noticeable rise in temperatures amid warmer weather than the situation was in November.

The weather conditions that will occur during these days are similar to what popular heritage refers to as borrowed days, but this time not between February and March, but between October and December! It seems as if November borrowed or “borrowed” from December some cold Siberian December days, while December took instead from November some warm October autumn days, which we pray to God will not last long and that He will provide us with rain soon and not make us among the despairing.