Emirates Meteorology Portal

There will be bouts of rain over northern Arabia starting from Jan 30 and continuing to Feb 2. Monday Jan 30, 2012: A long-wave upper air trough digs over the Mediterranean, with widespread rainfall over much of Jordan, northern Egypt including Sina’a, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. This time rain is likely to fall over interior areas that are usually dry. Tuesday Jan 31, 2012: Rain is expected to extend to northern half of Iraq and western Iran. A new surface low starts to form over northern KSA, with some thundershowers possible over northern red sea coasts of KSA. The low is  [ Read More ]

Colder air will start impacting the Arabian Peninsulua starting late Friday Jan 20th, as a surface high pressure trails behind an upper low and its associated cold front over southwest Asia. Three weather parameters to highlight: Colder Air, Winds, and Rain. Synoptic weather: After delivering rain to parts of the Mediterranean and northten Egypt, A mid-level low pressure is expected to move eastward towards southwestern Asian countries of Iran and afghanistan. With surface lows and fronts forming ahead and eastward of the upper lows, rain will fall over Iraq, Iran, then afghanistan, and Pakistan , with a cold front developing  [ Read More ]

Some rain showers and scaterred thunderstorms are affecting central and Eastern Saudi Arabia along the Arabian Gulf. This is in response to the formation of frontal boundary that will later convert into a weak cold front as a mid-upper low moves from the Midetteranean. It will generate some thundershowers while it slowly drifts southeastward and impact other Saudi Arabia cities along the Arabian Gulf coastlines. It might also bring chances of showers over Bahrain and Qatar, otherwise the front will dry up and end up bringing cooler weather on Saturday to mid sections of the Gulf before bring cooler air  [ Read More ]

Back to square one? After a wet and cool end for November for much of northern and mid Arabian countries, December started dry with cooler-than-normal temperatures over much of Arabia except for the UAE and Oman where the warm water of the gulf tends to moderate the air. In fact, Kuwait recorded a minimum temperature of 1C on Dec 7. Similar near-zero or even sub-zero temperatures have been common over central and northern KSA as well over the last few days. The weather is starting to “start up” again in a typical way: First a low pressure has to affect the Mediterranean countries before any impacts reaching the Arabian  [ Read More ]