Jordan | Dead Sea ice in 1950!

Weather of Arabia - The regions of the Levant were affected, according to the climate archive, by strong and historical snow storms over the past decades. The most prominent of these storms is the Dead Sea snow that occurred in the last century, specifically on February 6, 1950. It affected many regions and covered areas A large geographical area, so much so that snowfall reached the outskirts of the Dead Sea region.

The region was exposed to a depression, accompanied by a very cold polar air mass, one of the coldest masses that affected our region, which then led to a significant drop in temperatures. Snow also fell heavily over large areas of the Levant, even including parts of the Jordan Valley regions, and it extended Snow falls at intervals to the Dead Sea area, which is (-407 meters) above sea level.

The storm led to large accumulations in many areas, where the thickness of snow reached about a meter in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and in the city of Jerusalem the accumulation was approximately 75 cm, and in the city of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast, snow accumulated by 50 cm. This storm caused the death of about 70 people. Due to the extreme cold in both Jordan and Palestine.

An image showing temperatures in the 500 hPa layer on February 6, 1950

An image showing temperatures in the 850 hpa layer on February 6, 1950