Iraq | Thunderstorms began to affect these areas..and the night hours carry more

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - Separate parts of the Republic of Iraq began to be affected by a state of atmospheric instability, concentrated at the hour of preparing this report, and satellite images in the Arab Weather Center indicate the monitoring of the start of activity of thunderstorm clouds in the areas of western Anbar Governorate, including the city of Rutba, In addition to the neighborhoods of Kirkuk Governorate and the east of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, which are accompanied by showers of rain of varying intensity, and activity of dust-raising surface winds.

According to the weather maps in the Arab Regional Weather Center, Iraq is increasingly affected by a state of atmospheric instability resulting from the convergence of a cold air mass in the upper layers of the atmosphere with a surface extension of the Red Sea depression, as the range of thunderclouds expands during the evening and night hours and includes the capital, Baghdad, with heavy thunderstorms, with A warning about the danger of rising water levels and the occurrence of water bodies, and the danger of sudden torrential rains and large runoffs of valleys and reefs.

The intensification of air instability over Iraq at midnight on Wednesday / Thursday, and an alert of the dangers of sudden torrential rains

The depression deepens in the upper layers of the atmosphere, especially during the midnight of Wednesday/Thursday and Thursday dawn, and the unstable weather conditions intensify with it in several regions.

Where showers of rain fall, God willing, in many regions, but they are concentrated in the center of the country, and the rain is sometimes heavy and accompanied by heavy showers of hail with the occurrence of strong thunderstorms and activity on the speed of surface winds, and it is feared at that time that the risk of torrential formation and the rise in the water level in some areas It also warns of the flow of valleys and reefs as a result of heavy rains on some northern mountainous heights, especially the northeastern ones, including Sulaymaniyah and its surroundings.

The winds will be northwesterly to southeasterly, moderate in speed, brisk at times.