Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - With the beginning of the second third of November of the year 2019, indications increased that large parts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were affected by severe weather fluctuations, which were the first of their kind in that season.
On November 14, 2019, the Committee for the Nomenclature of Distinguished Climatic Conditions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia approved the name “Ghaith” for the rainy state, which began its direct effects on the Kingdom on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.
Returning to the prevailing weather systems, it becomes clear that the reasons for the emergence of the rainy condition Ghaith are due to the rush of a cold Siberian air mass towards the Levant region and the northern sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in conjunction with the presence of another air mass with high temperatures in the south, which created unstable weather conditions in The area where the two blocks meet.
The weather fluctuations and the accompanying heavy thunderstorms and hail showers included most of the Kingdom’s regions. In the northern sector, the Tabuk region was affected by heavy rains that raised the water level in the roads, and valleys and torrents erupted as a result. The Al-Jawf region also witnessed heavy rain showers, which were accumulating Remarkably, hailstones covered its sand dunes in an unfamiliar scene, and heavy and accumulated hail showers fell on Hawyan of the Hail region.
The western highlands of the Kingdom were not far from the effects of the rainy condition, as clouds multiplied and heavy rains fell on Makkah, Taif and the city of Jeddah, and also extended to the central and eastern parts of the Kingdom to include the capital Riyadh, Dammam and Jubail.
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