Sultanate of Oman: A low air depression affects the Sultanate on Thursday and is accompanied by thunderstorms of varying intensity and hail in most governorates.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>From the Arabia Weather Center</strong> - The latest weather readings at the Arabia Weather Center, resulting from so-called computer simulations, indicate expectations that the Sultanate’s atmosphere on Thursday will be affected by a depression of an air depression accompanied by a cold air mass, coinciding with the response of a surface air depression and the influx of amounts of moisture from the Arabian Sea.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>With illustrative maps: Timeline of the impact of the depression groove and the accompanying cold front on the Sultanate on Thursday</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is expected, God willing, that the effects of the low air depression on the Sultanate will begin in the morning hours of Thursday, with quantities of clouds flowing at different altitudes, interspersed with cumulus clouds, around the governorates of Buraimi and Musandam, accompanied by rainfall of varying intensity, accompanied by the occurrence of thunderstorms sometimes, leading to flowing valleys. And the reefs. It is also possible that some rain clouds will spread to various parts of the North Al Batinah and Al Dhahirah governorates. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/1_19.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>The cold front extends to many northern governorates in the afternoon and evening, leading to an increase in rainfall</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is expected that gradually, from Thursday afternoon, the cold front will continue its movement to the east, leading to an intensification of the effect of the depression on the Sultanate, and thus the cumulonimbus clouds will extend to various parts of the governorates of North Al Batinah, South Al Batinah, Al Dhahirah, and Al Dakhiliyah, and affect parts of Muscat and It is accompanied by rainfall of varying intensity, sometimes accompanied by thunder, and the falling of sedges, which leads to the flow of valleys and reefs.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Parts of Al Wusta Governorate, as well as Dhofar, are expected to witness thunderstorms and active downward winds, leading to local dust waves. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/2_12.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>The rainy situation continues in many governorates at night</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The effect of the depression on the Sultanate continues during the night hours (Thursday/Friday), so that the opportunity remains for thundershowers of rain to fall in many governorates, as well as extending to parts of the North Al Sharqiyah and South Al Sharqiyah governorates in a separate manner. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/3_8.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p>