Weekly Weather Report for Petra, Jordan. Looking at the weather in Petra, Jordan over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 31â (or 89â) on Saturday 22nd April at around 2 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 10â (or 51â) on Sunday 16th April at around 5 am.
70 Years and Blooming: Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival attracts large crowd. Rhododendron bushes on top of Roan Mountain bloom through the months of May and June. Wallace Cole hand paints every bird feeder made from a gourd. Crowds gather around white tents at the Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival.
Blue palo verdes (Cercidium floridum) turn bright yellow in late April, followed two weeks later by the much more abundant but paler yellow foothill palo verdes (C. microphyllum). Desert ironwood trees (Olneya tesota) bloom heavily about every other year with masses of lavender flowers, usually in late May.