A low pressure system accompanied by strong thunderclouds and hail affects southern Europe and 4 Arab countries.

Arab Weather - The latest advanced computer outputs received by the Arab Weather Regional Center indicate that a cold air mass is rushing early towards the south of the European continent, and a multi-front low pressure system is forming, characterized by high atmospheric activity, God willing, starting from Friday and continuing on Saturday before its noticeable intensification on Sunday and Monday to reach Italy and include 4 Arab countries.

A low pressure system with high atmospheric activity affects southwestern Europe.

In detail, weather experts at the Arab Weather Center said that as a result of the undulation of the polar jet stream, a cold air mass is rushing towards southwestern Europe, and a highly effective low pressure system is formed that will affect northern Spain and France on Friday and Saturday, in addition to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It is accompanied by several air fronts accompanied by heavy thunderclouds accompanied by heavy rains and severe thunderstorms. This type of weather condition is usually accompanied by a combination of winter and autumn characteristics with strong ascending air currents, which produces exceptional hailstorms accompanied by large hailstones, which damage public property.

The depression will intensify on Sunday and Monday as it moves eastward (severe thunderstorms and hail)

Meteorologists at the Arab Weather Center said that the low pressure system will move eastward, and thus the cold air will cross the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, which is suffering from warming in conjunction with the extension of tropical humidity, so that the weather activity will intensify and strongly affect central and southern Europe, specifically the Balkan countries, especially Italy and Greece, where high-altitude thunderclouds will form, accompanied by rain with a high rate of abundance and severe and successive thunderstorms and hail, which increases the risk of torrents and floods in many areas.

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The low pressure system affects 4 Arab countries in the form of a complex state of instability.

In this context, and as a result of the warming of the Mediterranean Sea and the passage of cold air in the upper layers of the atmosphere, and in conjunction with the rush of tropical moisture, a state of complex characteristics of atmospheric instability is formed over 4 Arab countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and western Libya) during the period between Friday 9/6/2024 and Tuesday 9/10/2024. Thus, thunderclouds are formed that grow to towering levels in the atmosphere.

It is accompanied by severe weather phenomena such as (heavy rain, thunderstorms and lightning, strong hailstorms with large hailstones, strong downward winds), and the terrain and topography of the land contribute to the process of lifting the air, especially the Atlas Mountains and neighboring areas. Mountain valleys and low-lying areas are exposed to the sudden formation of torrential floods, in addition to the high risk of flooding in several areas due to the large amounts of rain expected in some areas.

God knows best.

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