How does the moderate air mass in the central Mediterranean cause the heat wave in the eastern Mediterranean?

Arab Weather - Based on Arab Weather maps, we present to you the scientific reasons behind the heat wave affecting the Levant and the northern Arabian Peninsula, and the relationship between the cold upper basin in the central Mediterranean and the heat wave that will affect the region.

Analysis of the causes of the heat wave

Numerical models have shown that the high atmospheric pressure in the polar cap leads to the breaking of the jet stream, a fast air current in the upper atmosphere that typically surrounds the Arctic and traps cold air within it. When this current weakens or breaks, it allows unusually cold air masses to rush toward lower latitudes.

As a result of the distribution of weather systems in the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean, the high pressure system in the British Isles will direct the path of cold air and push moderate air masses southward toward the central Mediterranean Sea.

As the cold air rushes into the central Mediterranean, it is met, in response, by a rush of hot air from the African desert towards the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, including the Levant. This results in an intensification of the subtropical high and the accompanying hot air mass, this time over the Levant and northern Arabia, supported by a surface low. These atmospheric elements will maintain the hot weather in the Kingdom for many days.

And God knows best.