Today, Dhofar astronomically welcomes the start of the fall season 2023

Weather of Arabia - Dhofar Governorate in general and Salalah in particular are a destination for tourists from all over the Gulf region during the fall season, which is the peak of the tourist season in the summer, where nature is embodied in all its forms to cover the land with green meadows during the period from the last week of June until mid-June September every year.

This is due to the southwestern monsoons blowing during the summer and causing a seasonal phenomenon that is locally called (al-Khareef), which lasts for three months, as most parts of the mountains are covered with fog, heavy drizzle, and perhaps sporadic rain at times.

And specialists in the Arab Weather Center are likely to witness Dhofar activity this year around its normal rates for autumn.

Infographic: The scientific reasons for the autumn activity in Dhofar Governorate

The "Mascrina" air rise, located south of the equator in the Indian Ocean, plays a major role in the intensity / movement of winds and marine currents that cross the equator and which turn from southeast to southwest when crossing the equator.

And the activity of the Somali jet stream (which is a southwesterly/westerly wind in the low layers that crosses the northern Horn of Africa) is considered one of the most important catalysts for the Dhofar fall, and the terrain nature (of the mountains of Somalia) contributes a prominent role in the deviation of the monsoon towards the Arabian Sea.

The seasonal winds blowing parallel to the coasts of Dhofar cause cold water to withdraw from the depth to replace the warm water on the surface in a phenomenon known as the updraft phenomenon, which causes a temperature difference between the “warm and wet” monsoons and the cold water surface. The temperature of the sea is less than the temperature of the dew point in relation to the air. Fog or low clouds form in the Arabian Sea and move towards land and cover most of the eastern and southeastern parts of the Dhofar Mountains, and are sometimes accompanied by drizzle and light rain.

Finally, the Dhofar Mountains contribute to the formation of another type of clouds, resulting from the blowing of moist southwestern winds in the Dhofar region, which results in the rise of air laden with water vapor to the top, which leads to the condensation of water vapor forming low clouds.