Sunday 4/12/2015... the coldest April in 18 years

ArabiaWeather.com - Omar Dajani - On Sunday 12-4-2015, the Kingdom experienced unusual weather conditions for this period of the year, as a very cold winter weather prevailed, with heavy rain falling over large parts. This strange winter scene was crowned with snowfall on the high mountain heights, especially the Sharah Mountains.

And if we compare the temperatures recorded at Amman Civil Airport on Sunday, 12-4-2015, with the temperatures recorded during the month of April in previous years, we will notice that it was the coldest day during the month of April in Jordan in 18 years, as the maximum temperature did not rise at the airport. Amman city, east of the capital, throughout the day about 9 degrees Celsius, which has not happened since April 1997.

On Sunday, the temperatures dropped significantly and unusually in most regions of the Kingdom, as they ranged during the day in the mountains of the capital, Amman, between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius in many cases, while they remained close to zero degrees Celsius in the Al-Sharah mountains, according to the network of weather monitoring stations. Affiliated to "Arab Weather".

The temperatures decreased with the passage of cumulus clouds, and were accompanied by rare snowfall, starting from the Al-Sharah heights in the south on Saturday night, and it also extended with Sunday hours to the mountains of Ajloun, Jerash, and the heights of the Balqa and Amman mountains, with minor accumulations. But it's "historic" because it happened in the middle of spring.

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