Snow. In Jordan.
January and February in Amman are usually cold and rainy. “Yucky”, as my Director described it. Once in a while, they even get snow. Our airport driver said the forecast predicted snow for the weekend. Guess they were right, as this is what we woke up to today and walked in yesterday: A dusting of snow, as seen from my hotel window this morning. Look close at the orange-colored roofs and the white field next to the tree in the foreground. Okay. I agree it doesn't look like much. But, when snow falls here , it's wet, and quickly melts. So it's more about how it moves down the slopes. The roads become shallow rivers and everywhere is super slippery. A little precipitation goes a long way here! It started snowing on New Year’s Eve. At first, the flakes were small and intermittent. As the afternoon turned to evening, however, the flakes became heavy and wet—almost slushy-like. Not so much snow as we think of in the Western US, but a light sleet, and very slippery. Sti...