A low pressure system is taking an unusual path and affecting several Arab countries, accompanied by unstable weather conditions (details inside)

Arab Weather - Weather experts at the Arab Weather Regional Center are following the latest outputs of computer models that indicate the control of a strong high pressure system over large areas of southwestern Europe and the Maghreb countries, which leads to the rush of a low pressure system in the upper layers of the atmosphere towards North Africa and its separation from the general circulation of the jet stream, which makes it take an unusual path towards the depths of the Libyan lands and reaching the Arabian Peninsula.

A low pressure system is taking an unusual path and affecting several Arab countries, accompanied by unstable weather conditions.

In detail, an upper air depression is rushing from southern Europe towards northern Libya starting Monday evening, taking an unusual path through the depths of the Libyan desert during the next 24 hours, and continues to move slowly westward inside the Libyan desert. Due to the rare path taken by the air depression, it interacts with warm air currents from the south, resulting in a state of atmospheric instability accompanied by rain of varying intensity in many areas, especially the southern and desert regions, and the rain is heavy thunderstorms in some geographical areas, causing water levels to rise and water pools to occur.

The low pressure system will gradually move westward during Thursday and Friday, crossing Egyptian territory, resulting in unstable weather conditions accompanied by showers of rain in many Egyptian regions, extending to the Levant and the northern Arabian Peninsula, accompanied by chances of showers of rain that may sometimes be thundery.

Eastern Mediterranean suffers from a lack of rain

Since the beginning of December, the eastern Mediterranean has been suffering from a lack of rain, which has led to the absence of winter weather patterns and atmospheric instability. This is due to the shape of the prevailing weather systems, which do not allow the advance of low-pressure systems towards the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea. This is due to the weakness and disruption of the polar vortex, which leads to the concentration of cold waves towards the central Mediterranean Sea, and the formation of low-pressure systems that affect southern Europe, specifically the islands of Italy and Greece, and North Africa.

Looking at the general situation, we notice that storms are active in the North Atlantic, where they pull cold air masses and gather them in high latitudes. The Siberian high also extends towards Turkey and Iran, and acts as a barrier system to the advance of cold air masses that cause depressions when they reach the surface of warmer waters.

And God knows best.