Saudi Arabia | 17 mountainous points above 2,000 meters in height. Will it snow?

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is distinguished by its strikingly diverse geographical terrain; some of which touches sea level in height, while others rise towering above 2,000 meters, and even approach 3,000 meters on some peaks. With this great height, it might come to mind that these regions experience snowy winters, but surprisingly, snowfall there is extremely rare!

The most prominent elevations that exceed 2000 meters

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• Khamis Mushayt: 2015
• Baljurashi: 2030 AD
• Montenegro: 2050 AD
• Ahad Rafidah: 2080 AD
• Courtyard and Mandak: 2160 m
• Dhahran Al Janoub: 2170 m
• Abha: 2240 m
• Al-Wadiyan: 2245 m
• Tanuma: 2250 m
• Critical: 2290 m
• Sarat Ubaidah: 2370 AD
• Namas: 2375 AD
• Bellahmar: 2450m
• Balsamar: 2500m
• Al-Soudah: 2900 m

Why doesn't it snow on the mountains of Saudi Arabia despite their high altitude?

• Difficulty of polar lows and Siberian air masses reaching the southern Arabian Peninsula.
• As a result, temperatures remain high, far from freezing levels, when affected by rainy conditions.

Although the mountains of southern Saudi Arabia are thousands of meters above sea level, snow remains a very rare phenomenon there, only seen in exceptional weather conditions and for brief moments without accumulation, as happened in Balsamar in early January 2021.