Jordan | Can snow fall in the Kingdom in the fall?

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - As we get closer and closer to the fall season, and as we enter the season of weather fluctuations and low temperatures, questions abound on the Jordanian street about the possibility of snow falling in Jordan in the fall season. Is this possible?

Can snow fall in Jordan in the fall?

This question takes us back to the year 2013, when the Kingdom was affected by a rare and unique weather system that produced a snowstorm in the “last days of autumn” to remain stuck in the minds of Jordanians to this day, namely the snowstorm Alexa, which began to affect the region with... The dawn hours of Thursday, December 12, 2013, witnessed heavy and widespread snowfalls, imposing a curfew after most roads were closed due to the large accumulation of snow.

In detail, the European continent was affected at that time by a strong air pressure, as a result of which a very cold and polar air mass rushed directly from the Arctic Circle towards the Black Sea, then Turkey, and later to the eastern Mediterranean region, including the Kingdom.

This coincided with the formation of a deep depression that was initially centered over Syria and Lebanon, pushing heavy rain towards the Kingdom, which was in the form of snow accumulated largely on the highlands of the Jordanian capital, Amman, so that the thickness of the snow exceeded 50 cm in highlands above 900 metres, and that front included highlands. In the northern West Bank, more severely.

Accordingly, there is a possibility of snow falling in the fall, but statistically it is considered a rare event that does not occur often, but it is possible to happen.