Is the emergence of Suhail, a sign of the start of the rainy season?

2020-08-24 2020-08-24T15:25:06Z
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Arab Weather - The emergence of the star of Suhail in late August among Arabs and since ancient times, is linked to the beginning of the seasonal change, as the temperature begins to gradually decrease and the weather begins to moderate at night .

 

The star of Suhail shone in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant at dawn today Monday - the twenty-fourth of August - and will continue to appear in the far south of the sky until the end of the winter season in the Arabian Peninsula region

 

The star of Suhail disappears from view, like most stars in the sky, for a period of the year and then reappears for another period, beginning on the twenty-fourth of August of each year and then proceeding day after day until it rises in the middle of the sky at midnight at the end of September and then appears after The sunset on the southwest horizon at the end of March, after which it disappears for a while or conceals until it rises again .

 

The names of the star of Suhail among the Arabs:

  • Suhail Al-Yaman, due to its presence in the far south of the sky, i.e. the side of Yemen, where it appears opposite the Arctic Star, so the star of Suhail points to the south,
  • Al-Bashir Al-Yamani .

 

The Arabs in the desert were guided by the star of Suhail as they headed towards the south and the star of "Al-Thuraya" towards the north, as the star of Suhail indicates the direction of the qiblah in the Levant and the Arabian Gulf.

 

The star of Suhail is considered the second brightest star seen in the sky after the star of Sirius al-Yamaniya, whose name appears in verse 45 of Surat al-Najm, and is 1,200 light-years away from Earth, and belongs to the constellation (al-Qaeda), which is part of a larger constellation called (the ship) that appears in the southern sky .

 

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Is the emergence of Suhail, a sign of the start of the rainy season?

 

The Arabs took the horoscopes and the stars as a calendar and calculation, and the appearance of the star of Suhail has nothing to do with the visible appearance and the beginning of a moderate atmosphere, and that the Arabs

 

The appearance of other stars has nothing to do with atmospheric changes. Rather, its appearance coincides with a change in the source and quality of the winds, which in turn affects the change of the atmosphere .

 

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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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