Iraq | Flashes of lightning light up the sky of Iraq.. What awaits the country in the coming hours?

Written By هشام جمال on 2023/03/08

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.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia -</strong> The latest satellite images indicate that Iraq is increasingly affected by a state of atmospheric instability, as many regions, including the capital, Baghdad, are exposed to strong thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain and sometimes heavy showers of hail, with intense and successive flashes of lightning.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the weather maps in the Arab Regional Weather Center, Iraq continues to be affected throughout this night by a moderate to strong state of atmospheric instability, as showers of rain fall, God willing, in many areas, but they are concentrated in the center of the country, and the rains are sometimes heavy and accompanied by heavy showers of hail with The occurrence of strong thunderstorms and activity on the speed of the surface winds, and at that time it is feared of the danger of the formation of torrents and the rise in the water level in some areas, and it warns of the flow of valleys and reefs as a result of the heavy rains on some northern mountain heights, especially the northeastern ones, including Sulaymaniyah and its surroundings.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> During the early morning hours, the intensity of atmospheric instability gradually and clearly recedes, with clouds continuing to appear at different altitudes, and thunderstorms of rain falling in random geographical ranges of Iraq concentrated in the southeastern and eastern parts, and it is not excluded that the rains will sometimes be heavy in some narrow geographical ranges. .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> God knows.</p>

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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