Monster Tropical Cyclone Giri has formed in Bay of Bengal and is headed to Burma (Myanmar). The cyclone could pack sustained winds up to 115 knots (a category 4 cyclone according to Saffir-Simpson scale), gusting to 150 knots. Either way, the storm will deliver heavy flooding rain, high waves, and damaging winds. This is the fourth named storm of the North Indian Ocean 2010 Cyclone season after Laila, Bandu, and Phet. _______________________ Tropical Depression 3 in India Oct 15, 2010 A weak tropical depression (a low pressure area of strong thunderstorms and winds around the centre of the low of [ Read More ]
Archive for 2010
Day-time temperatures are expected to decrease during this weekend across the UAE. While remaining generally warm, it will be noticably cooler. Highest temperatures might hover around 34-36c, a decrease of 3-4 degrees from the current daily maximum temperatures of 38-40c. Night-time weather should also improve. By the start of next week, a slight increase in temperatures is expected.
A low pressure weather system centered over southeastern Europe near Turkey brought rain and thunderstorms to eastern Mediterranean (mainly Lebanon, Palestine, and coastal Syria) with some rain and thunderstorms extending inland to Jordan and other parts of Syria. During the early hours of Oct 8th, 2010, a belt of thunderstorms were moving east toward Lebanon and Syria (see below image) The low pressure system could bring good amount of rain (around 25 mm) to coastal Lebanon and Syria. Beirut long-term average is around 60 mm of rain in October. There will also be noticable decrease in temperature there. However, warmer temperatures are [ Read More ]
Mediterranean countries (mainly Jordan, Syria, and Palestine) received some unusual early-season rainfall on Wednesday Sep 22, 2010. This marks the first westerly wave of weather disturbances that affect the region from autumn to spring. While the rain was not widespread, there were scaterred thunderstorms that brought heavy bursts of rain. According to Mohammed Al-Shaker (from Jordanweather.Jo), the thunderstorms caused high winds that uprooted trees and resulted in sandstorms that affected Amman airport. And another wave of scaterred thunderstorms might affect the same countries (and maybe Lebanon as well) on Friday Sep 24, 2010. What is more unusual is the timing [ Read More ]
