A severe cold wave and heavy snow sweep across parts of Asian countries..and the Arab weather explains the scientific reasons

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2023/01/26

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.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - A severe cold wave swept parts of Asia, causing many deaths and injuries, and snow storms caused chaos in land transport and flights in Japan and South Korea, and record cold temperatures were recorded in China, and hundreds died in Afghanistan due to the severe cold .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In Japan, heavy snow continues to fall in the north of the country this Thursday in a powerful storm that caused hundreds of flights to be canceled, highways to be cut, and temperatures to drop to unprecedented numbers. Damage to power lines caused by fallen trees. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/etE_m5cIfYU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <em>(Blizzard in Japan and chaos in the land and air transport sector</em> <em>)</em></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In China, temperatures set a record in the city of Mohe (in the north), where earlier this week it reached minus 53 degrees Celsius.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> More: <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82%D8%A9-... region in China breaks the record by recording the lowest temperature in its climate records</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In Afghanistan, at least 150 people died due to the severe cold, in the worst winter the country has experienced in decades.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> More: <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%... death toll from the cold wave in Afghanistan has risen to at least 166</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In South Korea, the country&#39;s tourist island of Jeju canceled nearly 500 flights to and from its airport on Tuesday amid severe winter weather.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>What is the scientific reason behind the severe cold in many Asian countries?</strong></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the weather maps in the Arab Regional Weather Center, the scientific reason behind the exposure of many countries of East and Central Asia to severely cold and very dry Siberian winds is due to the fact that they do not pass over bodies of water.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> Where the winds blowing from Siberia maintained their bitter cold, and the same cold winds were accompanied by an increase in surface atmospheric pressure values as a result of the cold and dry air, which caused the predominance of cold weather amid recording temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, with values that ranged between 10 and less than 30 degrees Celsius.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> In complete contrast, due to the infiltration of Siberian winds towards the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk in western Japan, and due to the thermal differences between the water and the cold air, deep depressions and snow storms formed that hit Japan and covered many areas with heavy snow, in addition to the strong winds and extreme cold that prevailed in the atmosphere of Japan. Japan is characterized by high-altitude mountain ranges that reach a height of more than 3700 meters, and these peaks had the largest share in terms of snow thicknesses.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> God knows</p>

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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