Jordan | Important recommendations issued by the Arabia Weather team to avoid swimming in the Dead Sea tomorrow, Wednesday

Arabia Weather - According to the latest weather data received by the "Arab Weather" Center, active southeasterly winds are expected tomorrow, Wednesday, accompanied by sometimes strong gusts that work to raise dust and dust and reduce horizontal visibility in many areas, especially desert roads.

In ArabiaWeather, we issued a number of recommendations, including avoiding swimming in the Dead Sea, but why the Dead Sea specifically?

Swimming in the Dead Sea: In normal conditions, the wind direction is mostly westerly to northwesterly, meaning that it is opposite to the direction of the swimmers, and it is easy for them to return to the Jordanian side without exerting much effort. Also, in normal conditions, the speed of the westerly winds is light to moderate speed, which means that there is no rise in the waves.

While during the blowing of the easterly winds, the direction of the wind is with the direction of the swimmers and pushes them from their backs away from the Jordanian side. It also causes the waves to rise, and here the chances of drowning and the chances of stranding on the Palestinian side rise rapidly. The reason is that the wind blows from the same direction from which the swimmers started, and when stranding on the Palestinian side there is There is difficulty in returning to the Jordanian side because the wind direction is opposite to the direction of return.

In March of 2015; Two drowning incidents occurred due to active easterly to southeasterly winds blowing over the country, which means that the rush of waves and water currents became adverse to swimmers, making them unable to return to the beach as happens on normal days when the winds are westerly.

We hope everyone is safe.