Has it ever snowed in Jordan in the month of November?

Arab weather - November is considered one of the most transitional and volatile months between summer and winter weather patterns. In the northern hemisphere, this month is characterized as one of the months in which weather maps are very variable and also contains summer and winter features, Also, the behavior of this weather month varies radically from year to year, so we find in some years this month is rainy and cold as if it is an integral part of the winter season, and in other years it is warm and dry as if it is part of the summer or autumn season.

But has it ever snowed this month? Especially in those years when the month of November has a wintry behaviour. To answer this question, we went back to the Kingdom's climate archive and found the following:

- Indeed, it snowed in November of 2004, and even twice. The first was at dawn on 11-23-2004, and the second was after several days at dawn on 11-27-2004. On both days, snow fell on the high mountains, and some accumulations occurred on the northern and southern peaks, and unaccumulated snow fell on the tops of the central mountains. Including the highest heights of the capital. The same month in the year 2004 was very rainy and the kingdom was affected by a series of deep winter depressions.

Ten years before 2004, some snow fell over the southern mountain peaks on 11-25-1994 and 11-30-1994, after the Kingdom was exposed to two air depressions, but they were accompanied by a flow of very cold winds that lowered temperatures to levels that allowed early snow to fall. Extremely.

- About 12 years ago, i.e. in 1982, snow fell on the high mountain heights and accumulated somewhat on top of them on two occasions. The first was at dawn on 11/10/1982 and the second at dawn on 11/24/1982. Some non-affecting snow showers were also seen in some neighborhoods of the capital, Amman, for some time.

- In November of the year 1979, Jordan and the Levant were affected by a deep depression that reached the point of a winter storm, bringing with it huge amounts of rain and a significant drop in temperatures that eventually resulted in some snow falling over the mountainous heights The high, especially the southern, and accumulated in its southern high peaks.

- And in the year 1953, specifically on 11/19/1953, snow fell in Amman! And also most of the high mountainous elevations and accumulated in a very early scene. In the same month of the same year, snow fell again after about 10 days (11-29-1953), which included again the capital and the high mountainous heights.

- Some ancient historical documents state that during the Ottoman Empire, the Levant region, including Jordan, was subjected to snowfall and accumulations in the year 1908. And archival simulation maps released by the European Meteorological Center already show the presence of a strong winter depression and snow on days 29 and 30-11-2021.

And as we note above, the November snows have been absent from the Kingdom since 2004, after they used to occur in a pattern every 10-12 years. It is also noted that in a number of cases where snow fell in the month of November, snow fell twice in those months and not once.

If you have information through you or through your family and grandparents about snowfall that occurred in Jordan in the month of November, please contact us to add it to the list of these years. We seek in Arab Weather to enrich the content and weather data in the Arab world.

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