When was the strongest heat wave in the history of the capital, Amman?

2021-08-19 2021-08-19T13:41:38Z
محمد عوينة
محمد عوينة
مُتنبئ جوي

Weather of Arabia - These days coincide with the eleventh anniversary of the strongest heat wave in the history of the modern Jordanian climate record, as this heat wave was accompanied by many unprecedented records recorded in weather monitoring stations, perhaps the most prominent of which was recorded in the capital Amman at that time, and then the details :

 

The strongest heat wave in the history of the capital Amman

In the details, the atmosphere of the Levant, including the Kingdom, was dominated by a strong air rise in the middle and high air layers, accompanied by a hot air mass originating from the Arabian Peninsula, bringing the temperatures to forty levels in the capital, Amman, and due to the way this hot mass stayed over the Levant and eastern parts of the Levant. The Mediterranean Sea led to temperatures reaching unprecedented values in many regions.

On the twenty-first of August in the capital, Amman, the Great touched about 43.5 degrees Celsius in the afternoon, while it exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in the east of the capital over four consecutive days. The heat wave with the holy month of Ramadan.

 

It is worth noting that the temperatures were close in the mountainous areas on the one hand, and the Jordan Valley, Aqaba, and the Dead Sea on the other hand, in a way that does not happen except in heat waves. As a result of high temperature and sunstroke and its complications.

 

Here is the weather forecast from our colleague Muhammad Al-Shaker at that time, when he expected the capital, Amman, to reach record levels.

 

 

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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