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Ammon News - Friday, December 22, will mark the winter solstice and the start of marbaniyeh.

Director of the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD), Raed Al Khattab, said that the winter solstice begins on Friday at 6:27 a.m., local time, as the sun rises at 7:32 a.m. in the southeast corner with a magnitude of 117, and sets in the southwest corner with a magnitude of 243 at 5:36 p.m., so this day is recorded as the shortest day and the longest night, with 10 hours and 3 minutes during the day and 13 hours and 57 minutes at night.

With the beginning of the winter solstice, the winter square begins for this season, whose rains generally constitute 30% of the total general rainy season across the Kingdom, Al Khattab stated.

He also pointed out that these days are the coldest days of the year and are usually characterized by extreme cold and frost, especially if very cold and dry eastern winds accompanying the Siberian High air blow over the region.

The marbaniyeh days may witness heavy rains and sometimes snowfall and freezes if the region is affected by cold and humid air masses of polar origin with northwesterly to westerly winds accompanying a surface depression, Al Khattab noted.