'Nimeh' snowstorm fails to impress social media users

AMMAN — Jordanians wishing to wake up Monday morning to a white city were disappointed, as snow did not accumulate overnight, with many of them ending up going to work. 

Social media users shared memes and jokes about what they called "exaggerated" forecasts of the expected storm, dubbed "Nimeh" (meaning blessing in Arabic), which prompted them to prepare for harsher conditions and got their hopes up for a day off.

Lama Khatib, who works at a private recruitment company, wrote on Facebook that she had to go to work on Monday, as it was not announced a public holiday, but there was not much to be done and employees went back home shortly.

The Jordan Metrological Department expected snow to fall and accumulate Monday during the day in areas located 800m above sea level and by night in areas 700m above sea level.

"Everyone kept looking out of the windows fearing they will be trapped at work if it snows heavily," another Facebook user wrote.

Yosef Fuqaha claimed that meteorologists and bakeries cooperated to spread "inaccurate" news to show the government Jordanians'" real purchasing power".

"We took out a chicken from the freezer to cook; it cried: 'please put me back in, it is freezing out here'," tweeted Ayham Hammad
(@Ayhamhammad48).

Rana Abdallah joked that Jordanians have so far accumulated fat by eating what they had saved up for the snow that did not accumulate.

Social media users shared photos of the historical snowstorm that has recently hit eastern parts of the United States, joking that "Nimeh" changed its mind and went to the US instead of Jordan.