Arab weather - Sinan Khalaf - Starting on Tuesday evening, the actual impact of severe and large weather fluctuations awaited the Kingdom begins, as a very cold air mass associated with a polar depression is rushing towards the Kingdom's atmosphere, classified as a fourth-degree depression according to the Arab weather scale of the severity of the depressions The weather, due to the strength of the accompanying weather phenomena, such as heavy rain, snowfall and strong winds, amid expectations that its impact on the Kingdom will continue until Thursday evening hours.
It is expected that the Kingdom will be affected on Tuesday by a warm air mass that precedes the depression, so that the weather tends to be stable and warm in the hours of the day, but with the evening hours the Kingdom’s air crosses a very cold air front at the front of a very cold air mass of polar origin, working to reduce temperatures significantly And heavy thunderstorms fall accompanied by showers of hail and strong winds, and it is not excluded, God willing, that these rains will be in the form of snow showers over the heights of the Kingdom that are more than 1000 meters above sea level, and it is not excluded that they are accumulated locally and temporarily whenever the height increases.
With the hours of the day on Wednesday, God willing, very cold polar winds continue to flow towards the Kingdom, and the weather is generally stormy and very cold, and thunderstorms and hailstorms continue to fall at intervals, in the form of snow showers over mountain heights that exceed 900 meters from the surface The sea is from the north of the kingdom, and it may decrease at intervals, and it may extend intermittently towards parts of the central and southern heights, and it may be accumulated at times, while the kingdom is blown by fast, fast southwest winds , with strong gusts sometimes reaching about 80 km / hour causing In the occurrence of dust waves, especially in the south and east of the Kingdom and to a lesser extent the rest of the regions, which leads to a limitation of the horizontal visibility.
With the early evening hours of Wednesday, the Kingdom enters into the height of weather fluctuations, as the Kingdom's airspace crosses a snowy, "highly effective" and frigid air front, and snow falls, God willing, in areas that exceed 800 meters above sea level from the north and center of the Kingdom, extending over Different periods without that, and later it reaches the heights of Karak and Tafila, while these rains are sometimes heavy and accompanied by the occurrence of thunder and heavy showers of hail in the rest of the regions in the midst of stormy weather and winds that slow some of their gusts up to 80 km / hour.
As for the hours of the day on Thursday, the Kingdom remains under the influence of the remnants of the polar air mass of very cold, and snow continues in the morning hours over the mountain heights of more than 800 meters, then the opportunities for snow gradually decline, with the chances of precipitation remaining in the form of rain mixed with snow over Mountain heights of more than 1000 meters, and in the form of snow showers in the heights of the south of the Kingdom that exceed 1200 meters above sea level, and the winds will be westerly to southwesterly with strong speed, with intense gusts at intervals.
With the hours of Thursday / Friday night, the Kingdom is affected by moist western air currents rushing behind the depression and the polar air mass that accompanied it, and the weather is very cold in several regions, and often cloudy with rain, God willing, at intervals in the north and center of the Kingdom, which may be mixed with snow Sometimes over the high mountain heights, opportunities for snow showers remain in the heights of Karak and Tafila, whose altitude exceeds 1200 meters above sea level, and sometimes low clouds and clouds touching the surface of the earth cross, leading to fog and a decrease in the horizontal visibility.
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