Heavy snowfall in Amman, Jordan!

In the last articles, we informed about extreme snowstorm Elpis, which gradually hit Greece, Turkey, and Israel /https://mkweather.com/the-worst-blizzard-in-greece-since-1968-athens-50-cm-istanbul-turkey-36-cm-of-snow-florina-173c-and-a-rare-tornado-near-a-snow-covered-island/; https://mkweather.com/antalya-mugla-and-dalaman-turkey-with-the-first-snowfall-since-1993-a-country-with-the-strongest-power-outages-in-history/; https://mkweather.com/jerusalem-under-the-snow-a-possible-strongest-snowstorm-since-1992-the-traffic-collapse//.

In Athens, up to 50 cm, in Istanbul 36 cm, and in Jerusalem up to 25 cm of snowfall was reported, and snowfall was the strongest in the region in 30-50 years (since 1993, 1992, or 1968).

Surprisingly, a blizzard had near its movement above continental parts of the Middle East still very big power, and snowstorm appeared anomalously southward, in deserts in Jordan, including the capital city of the country, Amman.

The city elevated around 700 MASL reported snow cover 12cm+, in accumulations up to 30 cm and inhabitants of the city were similarly surprised by its strength such as people in Jerusalem day ago.

On 27. January 2022, temperatures in the city were moving only from 0,0°C to +4,0°C near heavy snowfall.

Temperatures in the city should reach in summer up to +43,4°C, winter record during clear nights is -4,5°C.

Snow in Amman appeared lastly in seasons 2020/2021 and 2015/2016.

Despite cloudiness, precipitation, and humidity, the temperature was during the movement of snowstorm above the area extremely low.

Only a few days earlier, in lower elevation in Jordan, frosts up to -6,0°C were measured.

Snow and severe frosts hit in the last period large parts of the northern Middle East and Turkey /https://mkweather.com/300c-in-iraq-children-in-refugee-camps-are-crying-from-extreme-winter/; https://mkweather.com/extreme-frosts-hit-kurdistan-397c-in-turkey-and-274c-in-iran-gaziantep-with-05-meters-of-snow-3000-vehicles-stuck-in-a-blizzard/; https://mkweather.com/syria-lebanon-several-children-dead-in-refugee-camps-after-a-snowstorm-israel-with-severe-floods/; https://mkweather.com/extreme-frosts-hit-the-middle-east-damascus-syria-80c-turaif-saudi-arabia-60c-kirkuk-iraq-47c-nekhel-egypt-45c/; https://mkweather.com/frozen-animals-in-turkey-a-tax-for-40c-frosts//, with very bad effect in refugee camps in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.

E.g. in higher elevations in Turkey, up to -39,7°C, in Iraq up to -30,0°C, and in Iran up to -27,4°C was measured.

Frosts up to -9,8°C appeared in lower elevated parts of Syria (Kamishli), up to -6,0°C in Saudi Arabia (Turaif), -4,7°C in lowlands in Iraq (Kirkuk) or -4,5°C in Sinai, Egypt (Nekhel).

Severe winter conditions should continue according to the newest estimates until early March 2022 /https://mkweather.com/ecmwf-forecast-for-europe-until-14-march-2022-early-spring-for-the-british-islands-scandinavia-continental-europe-and-iberia/; https://mkweather.com/early-spring-should-be-peaking-around-13-27-february-2022-nao-in-march-2022-will-be-even-warmer//.