Riyadh - Important | The first dust wave of the year may affect the capital on Saturday with high intensity... Details

Update: Thursday 2-22-2024 AD - 3:10 PM

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - The latest outputs of computer simulation systems for the movement of air masses and winds indicate that the central and eastern parts of the Kingdom will be affected on Saturday by the crossing of a cold and dry air front coming from the north, coinciding with the positioning of another warm air mass to the south. This weather system will push northern winds. To an active northeasterly direction with strong gusts at times in the center and east of the Kingdom, it is expected to cause the formation of a wall wave of dust, which is not unlikely to be dense at times and accompanied by a significant decrease in horizontal visibility.

The first of its kind this year..

A dust wave is expected to affect Riyadh on Saturday evening and night

The capital, Riyadh , will not be far from the dust wave , as expectations indicate that the dust wave will gradually approach the city of Riyadh, affecting it directly and with high intensity sometimes during the evening hours and Saturday night, so that surface winds become active and the horizontal visibility decreases to below 1000, provided that The intensity of the dust wave will gradually decrease starting from the night and late hours and dawn on Sunday.

We note that the Arab Regional Weather Center will issue more reports on the latest developments and developments in the expected dust wave through various platforms.

These weather conditions require attention:

• The risk of decline and perhaps loss of horizontal visibility due to heavy dust
• The risk of complications in respiratory and eye patients due to dust