Saudi Arabia | Al-Musnad confirms that the amount of rain that fell on Jeddah within 6 hours is equivalent to what falls on Riyadh in an entire season!

Written By سنان خلف on 2022/11/25

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.

Weather of Arabia - Professor of Climate at Qassim University (formerly), Vice President of the Saudi Weather and Climate Society, Prof. Dr. Abdullah Al-Misnad, said in a tweet to him via Twitter that the amount of rain that fell on the city of Jeddah on Wednesday 11/24/2022 AD, and within only 6 hours, is equivalent to what falls On the capital Riyadh during the whole year.

 

Al-Misnad said that this large amount of rain is flooded by major global cities, due to its abundance over a short period of time.

 

And the monitoring stations of the Al Watan Center for Meteorology recorded high amounts of rain, amounting to 169 mm, in southern Jeddah, from 8 am to 2 pm.

 

 

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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