From the archives: Jordan was under the influence of depressions that were accompanied by rain and snow on this day in the past three years

Weather of Arabia - Far from the stable atmosphere in the Kingdom, we will return in the archive to the past three years. So that the archival data available at the Arab Weather Center shows that the Kingdom of Jordan was affected at this time in the past three years by depressions that brought abundant rain and snow to some of the kingdom's highlands at the time. However, the situation is completely different these days, as the Kingdom is still far from the usual winter depressions and is affected by an air elevation in all layers of the atmosphere that imposes a stable atmosphere and temperatures higher than their normal rates. Indeed, the weather, for example, in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and Aqaba is closer. What would be the case for the spring, including for the winter.

In addition to the weak rainfall rates, which can be described as worrying in some regions of the Kingdom, if we compare it with the rate that is supposed to fall until this time of the year. The same archival data in the Arab Weather Center shows a decrease in the number of depressions (classified) that affected Jordan in the current rainy season 2022/2023 significantly and significantly compared to what was the case for such a time in the past rainy seasons, as shown below:

Infographic of the number of depressions so far

We, our followers, take you back to remember the winter weather that prevailed in the Kingdom on this day in the past years.

January 19, 2022: a third-degree depression accompanied by a very cold polar air mass

Going back nearly a year ago and on the same date of this day, the Kingdom was affected by an air depression classified in the third degree (medium-high efficiency), and crossed a cold air front, which worked to lower temperatures and predominate cold to very cold weather, and showers of rain fell, sometimes heavy. It was accompanied by showers of hail, and snow fell over mountain heights of more than 1,000 meters in the morning, and the precipitation level rose for the rest of the day to 1,200 meters. The effect of a frigid Siberian air mass deepened, coinciding with the continuation of precipitation, and a low level of snowfall, as intermittent showers of snow fell over the mountain heights of more than 800 meters, including the northern and central heights, including the heights of the capital, in addition to the southern heights, and snowfall extended to the southern and eastern Badia regions. .

January 19, 2021: a third-degree depression, accompanied by a very cold polar air mass.

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, the Kingdom was affected by a third-degree depression, and the first polar air mass, which caused a sharp temperature drop and very cold weather predominated during the day with strong winds. Heavy rains and heavy and accumulated hail showers fell in several regions of the Kingdom. These precipitations are in the form of snow over the high mountain heights in the north, center, and south of the Kingdom, and snow accumulated over the peaks of the northern and southern highlands, and the effect of the polar air mass deepened after the departure of the depression, causing a large-scale wave of ice and freezing that spread across different regions of the Kingdom, and followed This is due to the control of the Siberian Highlands and the predominance of very cold weather with easterly winds.

January 19, 2020: a depression of the second degree (normal), associated with a cold air mass

Going back more to the same day in the year 2020, the Kingdom was affected by a second-degree depression, and remarkably cold weather prevailed, with showers of rain in the north, center, south, and east of the Kingdom.

We ask God to give us rain and not make us despondent