Jordan | Early Weather Alert | New Low-Pressure System and Extremely Cold Air Mass Mid and Late Next Week

WASM – The Kingdom is expected to be affected by a new atmospheric low pressure system, following the impact of a prolonged winter storm on the Kingdom that brought massive and unusual quantities of precipitation equal to 60-80% of the entire rainy season in the north and central parts of the country.

In detail, the effects of the remnants of the extremely cold polar air mass will persist at the end of the week, with very cold and partly cloudy weather accompanied by snow showers in the mountains and rain showers in low-lying areas, particularly in the north, central, and eastern regions of the Kingdom.

Weather will stabilize temporarily at the beginning of next week, remaining extremely cold with frost occurring during nighttime hours and freezing in areas that witnessed snow accumulations (where the snow accumulation will require several days to melt in the highlands of the north and south of the Kingdom and the peaks of the capital).

Gradually and starting from next Wednesday (or around this period), the atmospheric low pressure accompanied by an extremely cold air mass will begin to affect the Kingdom, bringing additional large quantities of precipitation.

A prolonged polar wave or winter storm expected at the end of February is being monitored, and details will be issued soon and progressively.

Historic precipitation quantities during the winter storm|
Precipitation quantities from January 30 to February 9 reached 300 mm in western Amman at the Khilda station, and exceeded 300-400 mm in the northern regions of the Kingdom based on Ministry of Agriculture stations, which are extremely massive quantities equal to 60-80% of the entire rainy season.
Therefore, it was a major error to rush and announce a drought wave in an unscientific manner, disregarding the strong weather systems that affected the Kingdom previously, as a result of misunderstanding the climate changes occurring in Jordan, where climate changes have caused a significant increase in rainfall rates (approximately 150-170%) and not a decrease as is commonly reported in local Jordanian media outlets, and large precipitation has become concentrated in shorter periods compared to previous years.