A stormy depression centered in the Black Sea, northern Turkey, with expected secondary impacts on the Levant... Details

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - It is expected that the entire Levant region will be affected by an extension of a very deep air depression, which is expected to be centered this Saturday evening in northern Greece, and to move and deepen and center on Sunday afternoon in the middle of the Black Sea to the south of Ukraine, with unusual pressure values of up to Up to 973 millibars, bringing heavy rain and snow to large parts of Turkey and Ukraine, and strong winds approaching 150 km/hour.

This low, despite its extreme distance from the Levant region, will affect the countries of the region with varying severity, between heavy rains in parts of Syria and Lebanon, and rains of varying intensity and abundance in Jordan and Palestine. It is expected to begin in the Syrian coastal region as of Sunday morning, so that it increases. Clouds and showers of rain, which may be accompanied by thunder, extend during the daylight hours to include the central and northern coasts of Lebanon, but with less intensity.

With the hours of the night, a cold air front begins to cross the airspace of the region, starting with the Syrian coast, so that the amount of clouds increases and rain falls in great abundance, accompanied by lightning and thunder, and strong winds, some of which gusts exceed the 90 km/hour barrier, while the cold front begins to cross the airspace of Lebanon in the hours of midnight. Sunday/Monday, it will also be accompanied by strong winds and heavy thunderstorms.

As for Palestine and Jordan, the effects are expected to be less severe, as clouds will multiply in the hours after midnight in northern Palestine, and soon expand with the dawn hours to include central Palestine and northern and central Jordan, in the form of showers of varying intensity, and a significant drop in temperatures, provided that The chances of rain will gradually decrease starting Monday evening, and God knows best.