Arab weather - the8log - Day after day, fears of climate change in the world increase, and phenomena and repercussions vary between the melting of glaciers, the rise in the water level and the increase in the power of floods, which leads to the disappearance of islands leading to imbalances in the climate and the occurrence of abnormal natural phenomena such as droughts and hurricanes that threaten crops. Agricultural, forest and living organisms without exception.
Many studies were conducted and major conferences were held to find out the magnitude of this problem, which is threatening the entire world. Specialized scientific studies have warned that the globe is moving towards a climate catastrophe and that the matter needs to wake up and take urgent measures.
And if we want to enter into the causes of these changes, they are divided into two reasons, according to a recent study conducted by a team of international researchers in the universities of "British", "Wageningen" Dutch and "French" Montpellier, the first source of the same nature, and represents only 13%, while the human bears The biggest responsibility for these changes is 87%. In a report released last year, the World Bank warned that temperatures in the MENA region would increase by 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, which means they could reach 55 or 56 degrees Celsius.
Drought-causing climate changes impose urgent and effective solutions, such as the tendency to heat-tolerant plants, and in this context as well, some Arab countries, including the Emirates, are turning to salt crops, which are irrigated with sea water, in an attempt to overcome water shortages. The State of Qatar is also playing an active role in international efforts on climate change, in partnership with France, Jamaica and the United Nations in leading the coalition on financing climate activities and carbon pricing, in addition to the recent climate summit in Madrid and the Paris Climate Agreement in which all participating countries pledged to reduce gases Greenhouse.
And since the talk about the weather is prolonged, and it is one of the people's first concerns, it is necessary to refer to the fortieth winter in Jordan or what is known in the colloquial dialect as the "square of the winter." It is well known that the winter season extends to ninety days and is divided into two parts, "Al-Maqarbaniya", that is, forty days, followed by "Khamaseenah", which is 50 days and is also called the period of Saudization.
According to Dr. Jamal Al-Mousa, the Arab Weather Adviser, in his interview to the “Umniah” page via Facebook, “The square in the kingdom is usually from December 22 and continues until the end of January, and this period of the year is considered the coldest in Jordan, as temperatures are It is cold and cold, and polar air masses are formed with great potential for snowfall.
In Jordan, many popular proverbs are called the squaring of winter, for example: Oh, sunrise, sunrise, oh squared, oh sunburn, rain sunk.
People often face the issue of inaccuracies in weather forecasts and the spread of false news about weather forecasts, especially through social media, which led the weather in the Arabs to resort to an index for the classification of weather depressions consisting of five degrees on the basis of which the classification of weather, depressions and heat. For example, the first degree means that the depression is weak and does not include many rains, the second degree is a natural depression that does not require any fear or caution, the third degree: higher than the usual degree, while the fourth and fifth degrees are devoted to winter storms and strong phenomena.
The "Umniah" page on Facebook has dedicated a special episode that included information about the winter square in the popular heritage, the winter solstice day, the weather forecast for the winter 2019-2020, the index of severity of weather depressions and other topics, and you can follow more about the weather news this year and watch the full episode Through the following video:
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