Arab World Weekly Large thermal differences over the Levant and snow in the heights of the Maghreb

2021-03-20 2021-03-20T08:37:12Z

متنبئ جوي-قسم دراسة الحالات الجوية الشديدة

Arab Weather - Live throughout the Arab region during the current week major differences between the weather between hot, cold, dry, rainy and snowy, and between the pentathlonian depression and the winter depression.<h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A very cold air mass over the Maghreb countries at the beginning of the week</h3> An air depression is stationed over Italy on Sunday and Monday, pushing cold northerly winds towards all the countries of the Maghreb, where winter conditions prevail par excellence, and heavy rains fall on the coasts of northern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, while these precipitation are snow over mountain heights of more than 800 Meters in each of Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and the heights of more than 1000 meters in western Algeria, the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan countryside. And heavy rain showers will fall in the northern Algerian desert on Sunday, in conjunction with a strong dust wave in the southeast of the Algerian Sahara and across the Libyan desert on Monday. And the atmosphere will return to stabilize again in all the countries of the Maghreb from Tuesday, with the exception of Libya, where it remains under the influence of an air depression and a cold air mass until the end of the week.<h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Egypt, Sudan and the Levant ... a hot week followed by a cold air mass at the end of the week</h3> Because of the atmospheric activity on the countries of the Maghreb, a hot air mass rushes towards Egypt and the Levant during the first half of the week, and temperatures rise and hot to very hot weather prevails in Egypt, while it is hot to hot in the Levant. On Tuesday, a wave of dust moves from the Libyan lands towards Egypt, as the atmosphere becomes dusty throughout Egypt, in addition to great activity and clear in the speed of the dusty winds this time over Sinai. This dusty wave continues to move south towards Sudan on Wednesday, reaching the capital, Khartoum, where the horizontal visibility is low. Also, brisk southern winds blow over the Levant on Tuesday, creating dust waves in southern and eastern Jordan, the Syrian Badia and southern Palestine. These winds also disturb the sea in Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. As of Wednesday, a cold air mass is pushing towards the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, returning temperatures to drop in all regions with the opportunity for showers of rain to fall on Lebanon, the coasts of Syria and Palestine, parts of northern Jordan and the northern coast of Egypt.<h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula ... a tangible rise in temperature throughout the week, and dust on more than one occasion</h3><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></h3> Like the Levant and Egypt, the whole of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq are affected by a hot air mass coming from the African Sahara during the current week, as hot to very hot weather prevails with stable atmospheres in general. The southwest winds are active in western and northern Saudi Arabia, all of Iraq and Kuwait, on Tuesday and Wednesday, as they work to raise dust and dust. In spite of the great rise in temperatures throughout the entire Arabian Peninsula, the coastal areas bordering the Arabian Gulf continue to witness lower temperatures due to the blowing of the sea breeze, which works to soften the atmosphere. Starting from Wednesday, a cold air mass is being pushed towards northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq, coming across the Mediterranean and the Levant, as temperatures drop again, and continue to rise in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman until Friday.

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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