Feb 8-9: A few showers UAE weather details: partly cloudy to mostly cloudy conditions are expected on Feb 9th with scatterred light showers affecting northern/northeastern UAE. A few scatterred rain showers (sometimes thundery), with periods of clouds and sunshine affected the Arabian Gulf countries of Kuwait, Bahrain, , parts of Saudi Arabia (central, western Red Sea coast, and Arabian Gulf coast) on Feb 8th. The chance of widespread rain is not high as rain showers are likely to be isolated to scatterred. However, that doesn’t rule out the possibilty for some thunderstorms. Elsewhere, showers could extend to parts of the [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Egypt’ Category
The weather pattern across Southwest Asia has started changing starting January 13, 2011. There could be periods of cloudy and rainy weather over the region with some thunderstorms. The recent cold wave is also ending, giving way to milder and warmer weather associated with such clouds and rain. This spell of active weather ended around Jan 22nd. Heaviest rainfall recorded of more than 150mm in Saudi Arabia. The Big Picture: The area shaded blue has a chance of experiencing such conditions. Not all areas will be affected at the same time as low pressure systems travelling eastward result in rainfall [ Read More ]
The Middle East is probably the last region that comes into any person’s mind with regard to weather-related fatalities and disasters. Here are notable weather events in the Middle East in 2010, starting and ending with the typically very dry Egypt (!!) : At least 10 fatalities in Egypt due to heavy thunderstorms and flooding rain Jan 17th and 18th Strong thunderstorms resulting in 4 casualities in the UAE on Feb 28th Heavy thunderstorms in Saudi Arabia in April, May, and July which resulted in at least 7 fatalities The infamous cyclone Phet (see above image) killing at least 24 people in Oman [ Read More ]
At least 5 people were killed by the storms in Egypt and 4 people in Makkah as well.. An unusual track for a storm A powerful storm affected Egypt, the Red Sea, and NW Saudi Arabia. To get a severe weather event, the “right” ingredients must come at the “right” time. Put them in the “wrong” place and you end up with a potentially life-threatening severe weather event. And this time severe weather itself has decided to take a rather strange track. The following areas were hit hard by this storm during which strong thunderstorms struck between Dec 28 and 30 with the greatest impact [ Read More ]
