Entering Week of 27th...

Good Evening to all,

I talked before approximately half a month about a possibility of having something special in the week of 27th of December for this year.

So we entered today officially the week of 27th of December which will extend to 2/1/2009 in the New Year (Friday).

Weather wise, there will be some rain events this week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday possibly will concentrate at the northern parts of the kingdom, perhaps some showers will succeed in spreading to the central areas, but what after that?


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After that actually, a very cold arctic (continental) air mass will be pushed towards Turkey by late Tuesday, and continental means that this arctic air mass will be very cold, but also very dry, that means no actual snow accompanying it, but the computer numerical models maps are showing somehow 2 scenarios may this arctic air mass select, the first scenario that some computer models are showing that this arctic air mass sweep deep to the eastern Mediterranean sea, which means gaining high amounts of relative humidity and moisture, and then enters to Jordan by Thursday, and this scenario to be honest will cause snowfall over wide areas, but there is a second scenario suggested which is more possible at the time being by the computer models, that the arctic air mass sweep through Syria and eastern Syria, and continue to be a dry air mass, and this will lead to a very strong frost wave covering much parts of the kingdom with partly cloudy to mostly sunny weather, and temperatures may not pass/exceed 5 degrees as maximum in Amman on Thursday, and on night hours we could see some stations reporting -5 and -7 !!

We will keep monitoring the models and see, and I'll keep you updated.

Chao for now,
Mohammed Al-Shaker