In conjunction with the start of orbital activity in Arab Albar .. These are the most prominent tropical cases that affected Saudi Arabia during the past years

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - Despite the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s location and its geographical distance from the oceans and regions that make up tropical states and hurricanes , they are not far from their direct and indirect effects. A number of tropical cases were recorded that were able to penetrate the land and enter the depth of Saudi lands, and affected Directly on the rattle and the Empty Quarter, and some of them managed to reach the capital Riyadh!

Hurricane empty quarter that penetrated into Saudi territory in 1992

Returning to maps and archival data, we find ourselves in front of one of the rare tropical states 1992. On the first of October of that year , a tropical storm developed in the waters of the Arabian Sea to turn into a devastating cyclone that made its way directly towards the coasts of the Sultanate of Oman, hitting it with all force and completing its path in a rare way. Extremist towards the Empty Quarter in Saudi lands, and it continued to rotate until it reached its influence towards the center of Saudi Arabia, including the capital, Riyadh, and later heading to the southwest and then Yemen in the form of a deep air depression.

Here are some satellite images of this historical state, which show the eye of the hurricane over Saudi soil:

Al-Kharkhir, Sharurah, and the Empty Quarter under the influence of Hurricane Mecono in May 2018

As for a recent one, it is not possible to lose sight of Hurricane McConneau, which formed in the Arabian Sea and struck the coasts of Salalah in the Sultanate of Oman, before retreating from the third degree to the first, then to a storm and tropical depression that managed to penetrate towards the Saudi lands, and brought with it torrential rains and torrents to Sharurah and Khakhir, And parts of the Empty Quarter, also accompanied by strong winds, whose speed reached about 80 km / hour.

The security authorities took a decision in advance to evacuate 121 families, with 1481 people from dangerous locations to Al-Kharkhir Governorate and sheltering them in safe precautionary sites.