Jordan | Could it snow in the Kingdom this fall?

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - Summer has begun packing its bags for departure, and only a few days separate us from autumn, the season in which winter weather systems begin to gradually approach the Kingdom's atmosphere, so temperatures begin to drop and rainfall and winter weather begin to affect the Kingdom. Could the rainfall be snow?

Can it snow in Jordan in the fall?

This question takes us back to the end of 2013, when the Kingdom was affected by a rare and unique weather system that produced a snowstorm in the "last days of autumn" that remains in the minds of Jordanians to this day. This storm, Alexa , began affecting the region in the early hours of Thursday, December 12, 2013, with heavy and widespread snowfall, imposing a curfew after most roads were closed due to the heavy accumulation of snow.

In detail, the European continent was affected at that time by a strong high pressure system, which pushed an extremely cold, polar-originated air mass toward the Black Sea, then Türkiye, and later to the eastern Mediterranean region, including the Kingdom.

According to Arab Weather experts, this coincided with the formation of a deep low-pressure system centered primarily over Syria and Lebanon, pushing heavy rains toward the Kingdom. Heavy snowfall occurred in the highlands of the Jordanian capital, Amman, with the snow reaching a thickness of more than 50 cm in the mountainous areas of the capital.

Based on this, and we have Hurricane Alexa as an example, the chance of snowfall in the fall is likely, but statistically it is considered a rare event that does not occur often, but it is possible to happen.