Video: Did you know the UAE’s Jebel Jais mountain was once covered in 20cm snow?

Throwback video reveals how sheets of white lined UAE’s highest peak as temperatures dipped to lowest ever: -5.7°C

It was on this present day, February 3, 5 years in the past when the UAE’s highest peak, the Jebel Jais, was lined in snow. A throwback video shared by the UAE’s Met workplace on Thursday reveals how the predominantly brown mountain had turned white when the UAE recorded its lowest temperature of -5.7°C in 2017.

The video goes on to point out how fairly paths minimize throughout layers of snow on the mountain. Somebody even planted a UAE flag on a mini snow mountain.

The Nationwide Centre of Meteorology (NCM) video additionally highlighted the bottom temperatures recorded since 2003:

Jebel Jais is a part of the spectacular Hajar mountains that had been fashioned over 70 million years in the past. Towering at 1,934 metres above sea stage, the mountain normally information temperatures which can be 10°C cooler on common than the ocean stage.

Though snowfall is uncommon within the UAE, the Jebel Jais has been lined in white on a number of events up to now.

An unbelievable video shared by authorities final month confirmed the Jebel Jais lined in frost.

The mountain final noticed snow in 2020.

In 2009, sure components of the mountain noticed as much as 20cm snow.

“The sight up there this morning was completely unbelievable with … your complete space lined with recent snow. The snowfall began at 3pm … and heavy snowing started at 8pm and continued until midnight, overlaying your complete space in a thick blanket of white,” a police official, who flew a helicopter over the mountain, had advised Khaleej Instances then.

Different areas within the UAE have seen ice formations, too. Final yr, the nation recorded sub-zero temperatures a number of instances, leading to snow-like ice sheets and icicles.

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