Jordan | Rare hail in Aqaba and torrential rains in the south and east of the Kingdom.. These are the details of the air instability that affected the country on Tuesday

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - Several parts of the Kingdom were affected on Tuesday (January 3), and since the morning hours, by unstable weather conditions that intensified during the evening and night hours, as thunderstorms of rain fell in separate parts of the Kingdom, its intensity concentrated in the southern regions, and was accompanied by Hail showers fell (especially the southern parts of the Aqaba region), which led to a rise in the water level and the formation of torrents, in addition to the flow of valleys and reefs.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>The torrential torrents</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The desert road, specifically the area of Al-Qatraneh, Dabaa, and Al-Zumaila and its environs witnessed torrential torrential rains as a result of the abundance and continuity of rain. Public Security cadres took the initiative to cut off the desert road and prevented movement in both directions as a result of the torrential rains and in order to preserve the safety of the citizens. Hours later, the General Security reopened the road. Desert, while warning drivers to walk on it with caution and avoid using the Wadi Araba - Dead Sea road, as to expect the formation of torrential rains towards it. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%... style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="267"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The torrents were formed in the border area in the far south of the Kingdom, specifically the area of the Mudawara Border Crossing and its environs, as a result of those areas being affected by cumulus thunderstorms, which were accompanied by heavy rains. With the dawn hours of Wednesday, the border region between Jordan and Iraq witnessed strong cumulus clouds that led to the formation of torrential torrents. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%... style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="267"></iframe></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></h2><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Flood accidents</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Among the unfortunate events that accompanied the weather conditions that prevailed on Tuesday, a bus was swept away by torrential rains on the desert road near Al-Qatraneh Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, however - thanks to God - the civil defense cadres were able to rescue 23 people who were on the bus. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%... style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="246"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Public Security teams also received a report that a missing person was swept away by torrential rains in Madaba Governorate, and from the moment the report was received, the Public Security teams began search and search operations, and after combing the area for a distance of more than twenty kilometers, the teams were able to find him dead inside a pool that collects rainwater, may God have mercy on him. . </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Flnac4BXkAY1Eq4?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900" style="width: 853px; height: 568px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Rarely, heavy hail falls in the city of Aqaba</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Parts of the Aqaba region, especially the southern ones, were affected by strong cumulus thunderstorms, which led to thunderstorms of rain and heavy showers of hail of large sizes. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%... style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="267"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%... style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="261"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A rolling clip of heavy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF?src=hash&amp;... and its accumulation on the roads in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9?src=has... /><br /> See the weather around you via the platform <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%... through the application <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B7%D9%82%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%... <a href="https://t.co/R0YzMwdQUj">https://t.co/R0YzMwdQUj</a> <a href="https://t.co/oPcppj0fX7">pic.twitter.com/oPcppj0fX7</a></p> - Arab weather - Jordan (@ArabiaWeatherJO) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherJO/status/1610310263827271681?ref_src=t... 3, 2023</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Aqaba Region Authority had declared a state of emergency in Aqaba on Tuesday, based on bulletins and weather forecasts with the possibility of torrential formation and a rise in the water level in rain drains and channels during the weather, and the authority took all necessary measures and measures and distributed teams and mechanisms according to the emergency plan in the field to deal with the situation. weather in Aqaba.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Precipitation amounts: the south and parts of the center are in the lead</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the meteorological stations, the amounts of rain were recorded from Tuesday morning until midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday. The highest amount of rain was in the Mqablain station and Sahab station by: 27.3 mm, followed by Ma’an station (5-25) mm, then Aqaba (15-20) mm. We ask May God bless the rains of goodness and blessings throughout the kingdom.<br /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Arab Weather explains the scientific reason behind the state of atmospheric instability</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The scientific reason behind the emergence of the state of atmospheric instability is due to the approach of a cold air mass in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which coincided with the extension of the Red Sea depression on the surface and the flow of moist air currents in the various layers of the atmosphere.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Of course, cases of atmospheric instability are characterized by randomness and irregularity in the distribution of precipitation, rather than cases of atmospheric instability being characterized by heavy rains in narrow geographical ranges and for a short period, which causes the formation of torrential rains.</p>