Saudi Arabia 7:00| Thunderstorms affect Rabigh and rain is expected to expand to include a wide atmosphere in the Makkah Al-Mukarramah region and its coasts today

Arabia Weather - Sinan Khalaf - The forecast team at the Arab Regional Weather Center is monitoring quantities of cumulus thunderclouds now forming in the sky of the Red Sea, off the coast of Rabigh, where they have actually begun to affect Rabigh with showers of rain, accompanied by the occurrence of lightning and thunder.

Weather forecasts indicate that these clouds will move southward during the morning hours of Wednesday, and they are expected to cover most parts of Mecca, including the holy sites, and the coastal parts, including the city of Jeddah. These clouds are expected to cause thundershowers of rain, but it is not ruled out that It will be heavy and accompanied by cold showers in some areas.

Scientific reasons behind weather fluctuations

This rainy condition comes as a result of the push of a cold upper basin in the north of the Arabian Peninsula, coinciding with a surface and active response to the Red Sea depression, in conjunction with an influx of moisture with tropical characteristics to the region, which produces a state of atmospheric instability, as a result of which cumulonimbus rain clouds form.