Early alert | Cold air mass pushing strong winds and sweeping dust waves on Wednesday

Update | Monday 3/3/2021 at 1:00 pm

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - Our weather forecasts in Arab weather indicate that large parts of the Kingdom will be affected on Thursday and Friday by strong winds of dust and dust, resulting from a push of a cold air mass coming from the north towards the region's atmosphere.

Active winds to strong speed

Raising dust waves in large areas of the Kingdom

In details, it is expected that the general region of the Levant and the far north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be affected   In an air depression on Wednesday and Thursday, this depression will push, after God’s will, strong winds towards all regions of the northern, central and eastern regions of the Kingdom, the speed of some of its gusts reaching the limits of 60 km / hour , and these winds are capable of forming broad dust waves accompanied by a significant decrease in the horizontal visibility.

Areas covered with strong wind and dust forecast

As for the areas covered by forecasts of strong winds and dust, they are all from Al-Jawf, the northern borders, the Hail region and Al-Qassim, and up to the capital Riyadh, but in a weaker way, in addition to large parts of the eastern region and the coasts of the Arabian Gulf that witness turbulence in the sea and a rise in waves in addition to the dusty weather in general.

These weather conditions require attention from:

Danger of severe winds that gust up to 85 km / h

The risk of a decrease in the horizontal visibility due to the raised dust and dirt

- Risk of additives in patients with respiratory system and eyes due to dust