Iraq | A severe cold wave from the beginning of the week with temperatures below 10 minus zero

Weather of Arabia - Iraq lives on Friday, a remarkably warm atmosphere, before the approach of an extremely cold and polar air mass at the beginning of the week, which works on a significant and significant decrease in temperature throughout the country from north to south and from east to west.

Heavy rain at the front of the polar air mass:

Rains begin in all of western and northern Iraq with the hours of afternoon and Friday evening, which is a cold air front escorting to an air depression affected by the Levant, and abundant showers of rain are accompanied by thunder sometimes and hail falls and includes the city of Mosul.

The cold air front moves Friday night / Saturday night to include central and northeastern Iraq, and showers of rain fall on the capital, Baghdad, and the whole northern region, while the air activity is retreating from the western region.

A wave of dust and dust raised on Saturday in the west and center of the country

The south-western winds are active on Saturday in all regions of Iraq, working to raise dust and dust on the western and central regions and parts of the southern region, and the effects of dust on the capital, Baghdad, will arrive with the hours of Saturday evening.

Heavy snow on the heights of northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday

At a time when the rainy areas of Iraq are experiencing, the northern mountains are under heavy snowfall, especially during the crossing of the cold air front on Friday / Saturday night and Saturday, and snow is expected to accumulate in a way that hinders public life

The main polar mass crosses Iraq on Sunday

The cooler polar air mass begins to cross the airspace of Iraq from Sunday, and temperatures drop dramatically and additionally and are well below zero centigrade in many regions, and the latest updates indicate that temperatures may record exceptional and political values in northern Iraq at dawn with Expectations that temperatures will fall below 15 degrees Celsius below zero over high mountain peaks, while temperatures in Mosul will fall to 7 degrees Celsius below zero and be below 5 degrees Celsius below zero in the entire western region.

The cold wave reaches Baghdad and the south of the country on Sunday evening

Arctic air mass moves southward into central and southern Iraq on Sunday evening and Sunday night / Monday, temperatures drop dramatically and are zero in most areas at dawn Monday with expectations that a severe frost wave will form, and temperatures drop in the capital Baghdad at dawn Monday to 3 Degrees below zero.

It is noteworthy that the main polar air mass was not accompanied by significant snowfall because the mass is classified as dry continental polarity and therefore the atmosphere will mostly be clear to little cloudy but cold.

The effects of the severe cold wave on Iraq will continue throughout the next week, and will gradually decrease from the next Thursday, God willing.