Jordan: The scientific reason behind the long period of influence of the hot mass on the Kingdom and its lack of record temperatures

Weather of Arabia - The name "Father of Flames" applied to August 2023, especially the second half of it, which was characterized by high and continuous temperatures, as temperatures began their journey of rising in the Levant, including Jordan, starting from August 12, and deviated from their normal levels by several degrees, and a hot atmosphere prevailed in most regions of the Kingdom to this day. The highest temperature was reached in the Ghor Al-Safi region, around 46.2 Celsius, on the 13th of August, according to data from the Jordanian Meteorological Department. The capital, Amman, recorded an average high maximum temperature that approached 35 Celsius (from 7-1 to 7-24-2023), which is the reason that led to feeling the exhausting atmosphere.

The specialists in the Arab Weather Center said that although the hot air mass stayed for a long time near Jordan, it did not go deep enough to allow recording record or exceptional temperatures in the Kingdom, but the same thing, which is the length of the hot weather period, led to an increase in the feeling of fatigue and heat exhaustion.

And they added that the influence of large parts of the northern, central and western European continent by cold air masses, made the Mediterranean basin region under the influence of a strong air elevation in the upper layers of the atmosphere, so that the regions of the Middle East and North Africa become a warm thermal coverage area, because the cold mass that will descend over Europe is displacing another warm mass towards our region.

And the specialists in the Arab Weather Center believe that the occurrence of the Levant and Jordan on the outskirts of this air elevation and the thermal dome accompanying it led to the failure to record high levels of temperatures, as the heat of forty was not recorded in the Jordanian capital and cities, such as the intense heat waves that the Kingdom was exposed to in previous years.

On the contrary, the regions of the Maghreb and the European south fell under the weight and intensity of this high air, so that many of those regions recorded exceptional temperatures, most notably what was recorded in Algeria at 49 degrees Celsius, which is the highest temperature in the history of the capital’s records, in addition to what was recorded in Rome, Catalonia and many European cities.