From memory | Snow cold on February 6, 1950

Weather of Arabia - the whole of the Levant was affected on February 6, 1950, by an air depression accompanied by a very cold, polar air mass, which is considered the coldest in the modern history of the region, according to the archive data of the Arab Weather Regional Center for Meteorology and Weather Forecasts.

During that day, snow fell and accumulated on all areas that are more than ( -200 ) meters above sea level in the Levant, including the northern Jordan Valley and parts of the central Jordan Valley. The snowfall extended at intervals to the Dead Sea region , which has a height ( -407 ) meters from sea level!

Snow reached a height of one meter in the capital Amman and 75 cm in the capital, Jerusalem!

The information that was circulated and archived since that time stated that the accumulation of snow in the Jordanian capital Amman reached about a meter, and in the capital, Jerusalem, the accumulation was about 75 cm, and in the city of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast, the snow accumulated by 50 cm.

70 people died due to severe cold!

About 70 people died due to extreme cold in both Jordan and Palestine during that snow, most of them were children in the Palestinian refugee camps that spread after the catastrophe of 1948 AD.

It is noteworthy that this " snow " is known as the cold snow in Jordan and Palestine. As for the " big " snow, it was in mid-February of 1927, when snow continued in the cities of Jerusalem and Amman for more than 7 continuous days .

In the year 1911 AD, the Levant witnessed several very cold periods, perhaps the most prominent of which were those that lasted from mid-January to late February of the same year. The medium-altitude mountain highlands were subjected to intermittent snowfall that lasted about 25 days during this period. Perhaps the Syrian city of Aleppo was the most affected city in that year, as snow and frost continued in the countryside of Aleppo until March of the same year.

We leave you with a set of photos for the year 1950 in the coastal city of Haifa and in the city of Aleppo during the year 1911.