The heat wave is affecting the kingdom `the strongest and longest` for nearly a century

Weather of Arabia - The Kingdom continues to be affected by the heat wave that has been characterized as "the strongest and longest" for nearly a century, with varying intensity from day to day and until the end of the week, which began to affect the Kingdom on Saturday August 29, 2020.

The heat wave effect comes; Because of the control of a very hot air mass, from the Arabian Peninsula, over the skies of the Levant.

More than 10 ° C above average temperature

So temperatures remain more than 10 degrees Celsius higher than their usual rates for such time of year, with the weather remaining unusually hot for this time of year .

The temperatures are between the end of the thirties Celsius and the beginning of the forties Celsius in many Jordanian villages and cities, including the capital Amman, while temperatures touch the end of the forties in some areas of the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and Aqaba governorate.

A state of air instability with the afternoon and evening hours

Some clouds and medium and high clouds appear on some days at afternoon, evening and night hours, with the opportunity to show some local thunderstorms from rain in some narrow geographical areas .

Hot and stuffy weather at night

The weather is relatively hot and stifling at night and temperatures much higher than usual at night .

Long and strong heat waves that affected the Kingdom in previous years

Heatwave 2010

By referring to the archive data available to the weather forecast staff in "Arab Weather", we find that the 2010 heat wave, which was during the months of August and September, was the strongest heat waves that affected the Kingdom in the modern Jordanian climate record .

Where the Kingdom was affected during August and early September of 2010 (coinciding with the blessed month of Ramadan) by several hot and harsh air masses resulting from a clear and repeated expansion of the seasonal hot depression from the east, which is usually active from June to late September of each year, bringing hot and dry weather To all regions .

The strongest of those waves was that scorching summer, on the twenty-first of August, when the Great in Amman touched 43.5 centigrade in the afternoon, while it exceeded the 40 centigrade in the east of the capital over the course of four continuous days!

Heat Wave 2015

With the beginning of August 2015, the Kingdom was affected by a strong heat wave, accompanied by unstable weather conditions, and the maximum temperature rose to 42 degrees Celsius in the capital, Amman.

The most important weather events that affected Jordan in 2015

With the midst of August 2015, the Kingdom was affected by a new heat wave, which lasted from 14 to 20 August, during which the maximum temperature in the capital, Amman rose to exceed the barrier of 40 Celsius, on 17 and 18-8-2015.

Heat wave 2017

During the summer of 2017, the Kingdom was exposed to a large number of heat waves, and temperatures were above normal levels on 74% of summer days.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the city of Amman during it was 40.2 degrees Celsius on 9/14-2017, while the highest maximum temperature in the Kingdom was recorded at the Ghor Al Safi monitoring station during the summer of 2017 and it reached 47.0 degrees Celsius on 4-7-2017.

May 2019

It is considered one of the long heat waves that affected the kingdom, which began in May 2019, and lasted for 19 days and ended on 6-8-2019.

Mojo Free May 2020

The Kingdom affected during the period from 11-22 May with a heat wave that coincided with the last days of the blessed month of Ramadan, and was accompanied by a large and clear rise in temperatures, as they were higher than their rates during this period of the year by about 10-12 degrees Celsius.

The Kingdom was also affected by the following heat waves

Heat wave 2000

At the end of the month of 7 and the first month of the year 8 of the year 2000, the capital Amman recorded 43 degrees Celsius, and the Kingdom recorded its highest maximum temperature recorded in the university farm on 06/09/2002 and it reached 50 degrees Celsius higher than its average by 12 degrees Celsius.

Heat Wave 2007

At the end of the month of 2007, the temperature in the capital, Amman, reached 42 ° C and 46.7 ° C in Ad-Dulayl

And the heat waves of June and July 2012

Temperatures during the heat wave in June 2012 in several areas in the capital Amman and Jordanian cities were above 40 degrees Celsius, and Marka Airport scored 41.2.