On this day: 2022 snow and 2023 more like spring - details

2023-01-26 2023-01-26T18:04:55Z
هشام جمال
هشام جمال
مُحرر أخبار جوية

Weather of Arabia - The Kingdom has been witnessing, for quite some time, much warmer temperatures than it is accustomed to for this time of the year, in the midst of an almost complete absence of the main important weather events and a decrease in the amounts of precipitation, especially in the northern and central regions alike.

The weather forecasts in the Arab Regional Weather Center indicate that the Kingdom will be affected at the end of this week by an air mass with warmer temperatures than its average for this time of the year, amid a warmer atmosphere than what is used to for this time of the year, amid expectations of recording temperatures touching the 20 In the cities of the Kingdom, including the capital, Amman.

In contrast to the current atmosphere, the same date as today, last year, Jordan was waiting for the white visitor

On the contrary, the Kingdom was affected on the same date last year, the period, by a fourth-degree (highly effective) depression, accompanied by a very cold polar air mass, and is considered the strongest in that season.

An effective polar air front crossed the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 1/26/2022, which led to a significant drop in degrees and an intensification of wind speeds. Mountain heights of more than 1,000 meters high received snow on Wednesday evening, and the snow gradually extended to heights of 800 meters above sea level.

The snow was accumulating rapidly with the passage of time and included many regions of the Kingdom, including different parts of the capital, Amman, and the main cities.

And the Kingdom crossed a new polar air front with the hours of midnight Wednesday / Thursday, with the deepening of the influence of the polar winds in all layers of the atmosphere, which means that the Kingdom entered the peak of the effect of the atmospheric depression, and the level of snowfall decreased and included heights of 700 meters in the north, center and east of the Kingdom. Irbid and Zarqa, as a result of the snow extending for some time to areas below that height at dawn on Thursday, and the snow was heavy, especially in the central regions and the capital, Amman, while heavy rain and hail continued in the low-lying areas.

While the weather was very cold, windy, and often cloudy in the southern regions, with showers of snow falling from time to time over the mountains, and an intensification of wind speeds, as the speed of gusts touched the barrier of 100 km/h in the mountain heights, especially the southern ones.

Most of the regions of the Kingdom, with a height of more than 700 meters, were white on the morning of Thursday 1/27/2022, and the accumulation increased with the increase in altitude, and the air depression moved away from the region and wet polar winds rushed behind it from Thursday afternoon until Friday, and a rise in the level of snowfall occurred to 1000, while it received Areas with a height less than that, rain or snow mixed, and the remnants of wet currents continued on Saturday 1/28/2022, and rain fell at intervals until the evening hours.

The capital, Amman, recorded the largest snow thickness at that time, at 35 cm

It is noteworthy that the capital, Amman, recorded at that time good thicknesses of snow on Thursday morning, the highest in the west and south of the capital, at a rate of 25-35 cm, while the north of the capital, Amman, recorded a thickness of snow between 20-30 cm, while the east of the capital recorded a snow accumulation of about 10-20 cm, and behind The depression left behind many closed roads and stuck cars, and the snow also broke a large number of trees and the fall of electricity poles, causing a power outage. It was followed by widespread formation of frost and ice.

God knows.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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