Iraq | A depression and a very cold mass that brings rain to many areas and opportunities for snow showers in the Rutba desert

Written By هشام جمال on 2023/01/01

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 - weather maps in the Arab Regional Weather Center indicate that Iraq was affected, with the late night hours of Tuesday/Wednesday night and Wednesday dawn, by an air depression and a very cold air mass, and quantities of clouds multiply with precipitation, starting from the western and southwestern regions of the country, where the rain is heavy Sometimes it is of a bloody nature, which may lead to the formation of torrents and the rise of the water level.

 

The effect of the depression and the cold air mass deepened on Wednesday

 

According to the weather maps in the Arab Regional Weather Center, it is expected that the effect of the cold air mass accompanying the depression will deepen on Wednesday, as the weather will be cold in all regions and very cold in the western and mountainous regions, and gradually expand during the day the range of precipitation to include large areas of the west and south of the country and extend For the central regions, including the capital, Baghdad, the rains are intermittent and sometimes heavy, especially in the western regions.

(And with the late morning and afternoon hours, very cold winds are expected to leak into the various layers of the atmosphere, and the opportunity is created at that time for rain mixed with snow or showers of snow on the desert of western Rutba, specifically in the border areas, including the Trebil border crossing).

 

And the southeast winds are brisk at intervals that increase the feeling of coldness.

 

Extended rain Wednesday evening to the northern regions

And with the hours of Wednesday evening and during the night, the concentration of rain shifts to the northern regions of Iraq, and at that time showers of snow fall on the northern mountain peaks, especially in the northern regions, accompanied by showers of hail and the formation of fog as a result of the crossing of low clouds touching the surface of the earth.

 

In light of the expected weather conditions, the Arab Weather Center recommends:

 

 

God knows

 

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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