Update | Latest forecasts of the cold wave, its intensity and the regions that will be affected by it on Thursday and Friday

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - The weather forecast staff at the Arab Weather Regional Center warned that large parts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be affected on Thursday and Friday by a very cold air mass that began today by crossing the northern parts of the Kingdom, and it will reduce temperatures to large levels approaching zero degrees in parts Wide of the kingdom on Thursdays and Fridays.

Coming from the Levant ..

A very cold mass affecting the area

The latest forecast issued by the forecast staff today, Wednesday, indicates the rush of a polar air mass of high cold origin towards the region, coming from the eastern basin of the Mediterranean and the Levant region, to dominate the airspace of the Arabian Peninsula and Kuwait, on Thursday and Friday, so that a frigid atmosphere prevails in Most of the areas

Low temperatures and cold weather

Temperatures near zero degrees Celsius in most regions

It is expected that the northern parts of the Kingdom, especially Al-Jawf, the northern borders, and the Hail region on Thursday / Friday night, temperatures between zero degrees and two degrees below zero, while they are between zero and three degrees in Qassim, and rise from that to be between three degrees to Five degrees Celsius in Riyadh and the eastern region.

A warning to farmers and livestock keepers

With these expectations, it is worth alerting the owners of agricultural lands and livestock keepers of the direct effects of this cold wave on these sectors unless the necessary preventive measures are taken to deal with such weather conditions to protect livestock from dying from cold and crops from frost.