Important alerts during the depression affecting the kingdom

Weather of Arabia - Since the afternoon of Thursday, January 23, 2020, the Kingdom has been affected by a second degree air depression, accompanied by:

• The temperature drops below 6-8 degrees Celsius.
• Precipitation in all regions of the Kingdom, sometimes heavy and accompanied by hail showers.
• Snowfall and accumulation over the high southern highlands may extend in the form of light or ineffective snow showers towards the mountains of the north and center of the Kingdom, which rise 1000 meters above sea level, including the highlands of the capital Amman.
• The south-west wind blows gradually to the northwest with active speed with strong speed gusts that may approach the 90-100 km / hour barrier, especially over high mountain peaks in the south of the kingdom and open areas, and it is exciting for dust in desert areas that may include roads leading to border crossings with Saudi Arabia and Iraq in addition to the desert road towards Aqaba.
• Friday evening and Friday, after the end of the depression, it is expected that the temperatures will drop significantly and touch the zero percentage point, and may reach 3 ° C below zero in some areas of the desert and the tops of the southern mountains, which may lead to the formation of a strong wave of frost and freezing in large areas of the Kingdom.

Therefore, the weather in Arabia warns:

• The risk of torrents and high water levels.
• Warning of low visibility due to dust in the southern and southeastern Badia regions.
• The risk of snow accumulation over the southern high mountainous hills.
• The risk of high wind speed, which may reach the speed of some gifts over high ropes, to 90-100 km / h.
• Road glides are formed in the mountainous highlands by cold showers.
• Frost formation and freezing occurred in large areas of the Kingdom except for the Jordan Valley, Dead Sea and Aqaba.