What is the climate of March in Jordan?

Weather of Arabia - The month of March is characterized by several weather factors and features from other months of the year, as it is characterized by frequent weather and thermal fluctuations, as the five-year depressions are active and in turn impose clear fluctuations in the weather, and opportunities for strong depressions to form remain during this month, as the archive The climate is full of strong depressions that affected Jordan in May years. This period of the year is also characterized by a conflict between warm air masses coming from the Arabian Peninsula and the African desert, and cold air masses coming from the European continent.

Among the weather systems that usually prevail in the Kingdom’s atmosphere during the spring season are the five-year depressions, which usually bring a noticeable rise in temperatures and dusty atmospheres, but usually rush behind these depressions relatively cold air masses that lead to a sharp drop in temperature in a difference My time may not exceed 24 hours.

The climate archive shows that Jordan was affected by depressions during the month of March

During the month of March, according to the Jordanian Climate Archive, the Kingdom witnessed depressions that brought rain in addition to heavy snowfall on several days of the month, most notably the first days of March 1980 and 3/18/1998 following the impact of a fiftieth depression (which is the deepest in terms of low pressure values). air) in the Jordanian Climate Archive, 3/26/2003, 3/16/2007, and 3/2/2012.

Among the most prominent of these weather cases was on March 14, 1998, when Jordan was affected by the deepest depression in the climatic records, and it was five years, which brought with it sand storms that are considered one of the strongest sand storms that affected Jordan and the region, as the wind speed reached nearly 100 km. The maximum temperature recorded was more than 20 degrees, followed by a snow storm.

On Sunday 3-15-1998, severe sandstorms arose in Egypt, which moved to Jordan and the Levant, and on Monday 3-16-1998, satellite images show that Jordan and the Levant completely disappeared under a severe sandstorm, and the temperature was nearly 30 degrees Celsius in Amman, and the deep depression pulls cold and polar currents from the north towards the region

As for Tuesday 17-3-1998, the remnants of the sandstorm are still affecting the Kingdom with a significant decrease in temperatures and the start of heavy rain and hail in some areas, followed by snowfall and accumulation (yellow in some areas) due to the mixing of snow with dust suspended in the atmosphere.

On Wednesday 18-3-1998, an air mass of polar origin affected the Kingdom and the Levant, with snow falling on the highlands,