Photos: Snow blankets UAE's Jebel Jais mountain

UAE residents are enjoying the winter chill — it's literally snowing in Jebel Jais, where the temperature reached -1 °C in the early hours of Wednesday — even as the country sees intermittent rains which sometimes bring hail.

Jebel Jais is the tallest mountain in the Emirates (height: 1,934 m).

The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) issued an orange alert for residents to be on the look-out for hazardous weather conditions in the UAE on January 15.

Current temperatures across the UAE are between 12°C to 17°C.

Hail seen in Jebel Jais in Ras Al Khaimah.