The Red Sea depression ... What is it and how does it affect the Middle East?

Weather of Arabia - Many countries of the region are affected during these days by the extension of the “ Red Sea depression”, which affects the distribution of rain in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and parts of Egypt greatly. What is the Red Sea depression?

What is the Red Sea depression?

• The Red Sea depression is known as a thermal depression, it depends on the thermal differences in its formation, depth, decay or shrinkage that arise between the surface water temperature in the Red Sea basin and the dry land in the Arabian Peninsula and Sudan
• The Red Sea depression is a sub-extension of its original habitat, the Sudan depression.

As temperatures increase, surface pressure values decrease in normal conditions. Therefore, the Red Sea shrink and weakens, retracts to the south (towards the south of the Red Sea and eastern Sudan) in the summer, and deepens north in autumn, winter, and spring.

When does the Red Sea depression deepen and shrink?

When the heat is severe in the summer on the Arabian Peninsula, where the temperature of the land there is greater than the surface temperature of the water in the Red Sea, which causes high values of air pressure in the sea, at the expense of the depth of the low seasonal India in the east and southeast of the Arabian Peninsula, Here the Red Sea depression shrinks and retracts to the south.

When temperatures become moderate during the autumn in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically in the second half of September, surface pressure begins to fill (increased pressure values and low seasonal India low) as a result of lower temperatures, thus forming an appropriate environment in the Red Sea for low surface pressure In it, this is called the depth of the Red Sea depression and its expansion to the north.

Weather conditions will be suitable for the Red Sea depression from mid-September to early May.

How the Red Sea depression intensifies and revitalizes? from here