Saudi Arabia | Areas covered by the rain and lightning forecast for Saturday, January 24, 2026

Arab Weather - The latest weather forecasts issued by numerical models and reports issued by the National Center for Meteorology indicate that the Kingdom will be gradually affected by a state of atmospheric instability, accompanied by the formation of cumulonimbus clouds, rainfall in several areas, accompanied by lightning, thunder and surface wind activity.

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Rainfall is expected to intensify over the next 24 hours.

It includes several areas and is accompanied by lightning, thunder, and surface wind activity.

During the hours after midnight, large amounts of cumulus clouds are expected to form between Yanbu, Umluj, the northern part of the Madinah region, the western side of Hail and Qassim, where these areas are expected to witness rainfall, which may be heavy at times and in some areas, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

On Saturday, the unstable weather conditions will expand, and rain will fall, God willing, in the form of showers in various parts of Al-Jawf, the Borders, the Northern Region, and Tabuk, in addition to Hafr Al-Batin, Tabuk, parts of Al-Qasim, Hail, the Eastern Region, the northern part of the Riyadh Region, and parts of the Makkah and Madinah Regions. These areas will witness varying intensities and heaviness of rain, accompanied by lightning, thunder, and possibly hail, in addition to surface wind activity.

During the night hours of Saturday, most of the focus of the rainy weather will shift towards the Hafr Al-Batin area and the northern parts of the Eastern Province, where the sky is expected to become overcast with clouds and showers of thundery rain of varying intensity are expected.

And God knows best.