Despite the devastation caused by the devastating earthquake, the affected areas are under severe cold and temperatures several degrees below zero.

2023-02-13 2023-02-13T11:16:32Z
هشام جمال
هشام جمال
كاتب مُحتوى جوّي

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia -</strong> The violent earthquake, which measured 7.8 degrees on the Richter seismic scale, hit the region at 04:17 am on Monday 7/2/2023, while its epicenter was located at a depth of 17.9 kilometers below the surface of the earth in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. About 12 hours later, another earthquake - with almost the same strength - struck the region 130 kilometers to the north, leaving a large number of victims and causing destruction in and around Gaziantep, in addition to northwestern Syria, specifically the city of Aleppo.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Nature is not satisfied yet</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Despite the severe earthquake that caused panic and destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria, a cold and dry air mass has been concentrated over Turkey for several days, extending towards Syria and the rest of the countries of the eastern basin of the Mediterranean.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> During the daytime hours, very cold weather prevailed, and bitter cold during the night in the areas affected by the violent earthquake, and the weather forecast staff at the Arab Regional Weather Center expects the deepening of the cold air mass to southern Turkey and northern Syria.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> Amid expectations of recording temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, by about 4-9 degrees Celsius, in the Gaziantep region and its environs, while temperatures in the north of the Syrian territories, including Aleppo, will range from 0 to -4 degrees Celsius below zero.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> Amidst an atmosphere that can be described as bitterly cold, despite the devastation surrounding those areas, which requires us to provide assistance to those affected by the earthquake, whose surrounding conditions have become very difficult.</p>

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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