Does the weather affect the progress of locusts to the Kingdom?

Written By هشام جمال on 2020/12/13

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab Weather -</strong> The Ministry of Agriculture has raised the state of preparedness to face any potential danger of desert locusts, based on the permanent follow-up of the locust movement and the information received with the arrival of swarms in large numbers into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the possibility of some of these swarms moving towards the Kingdom due to the presence of the southern winds, but does the weather affect the progress Locusts towards the kingdom?</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The change in the direction of the winds to southwesterly tomorrow noon prevents the advance of locusts towards the kingdom!</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> The southern winds and the southeast winds help the locusts to enter because they come from the Saudi lands, but when the winds turn to the southwest direction starting from the hours of tomorrow noon, they work to move it away from the Kingdom because the movement of locusts depends on the movement of the winds, and the southwest winds are opposite to the direction of the locust advancement, in addition to The southwest wind will be active in speed, thus preventing its entry and progress towards the Kingdom.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A great cold in the air kills locusts if part of it enters the kingdom!</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> The journey of a clear decrease in temperatures begins on Monday / Tuesday night, so the weather becomes cold, and there is a further decrease in temperatures on Tuesday, and the weather is relatively cold in the midst of a clear heat drop between Monday and Tuesday, and it is indicated that locusts do not grow in cold weather , And dies with strong depressions.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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