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Forecast: Hot Weather in Egypt Today


Fri 03 Jul 2020 | 09:48 AM
Ahmed Moamar

Experts of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) announced details of weather on Friday.

The EMA released a statement explaining that weather conditions will be hot and humid in Cairo and Lower Egypt, where the major temperature degree in Cairo will be 38 Celsius.

The experts said that weather will be moderate in the northern coasts next to the Mediterranean Sea and the other water bodies connected to it. It will be very hot in the north and south of Upper Egypt.

However, it will be nice at night in most parts of the country.

EMA's statement pointed out that water mist hangs in the morning on Cairo, Lower Egypt and the northern coasts. Moderate winds, sometimes active will blow up in Cairo and Lower Egypt.

The meteorologists reveal that Egypt will be affected by India's seasonal low extension.

On the state of the Mediterranean, the EMA's statement said, it will be light to moderate and wave height ranges from one to one and a half meters.

The state of the Red Sea will be moderate and wave height from one and a half to two meters.

On the other hand, the experts warn of the  Coronavirus pandemic may affect the accuracy of the initial weather forecast model output originating from national and global weather prediction centers because of a cutback in the number of aircraft flights that generate vital weather data, according to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and other experts.

The aircraft collect temperature and wind data, among other information, that help improve the initial atmospheric conditions that drive global and regional weather forecast models. This data is used routinely to improve the forecasts created by national weather prediction centers across the globe.

The pandemic has drastically reduced the number of such flights in Europe and increasingly in the U.S. This impact will be a reduction in global forecast performance. For regional models, the impact may be even greater.

Regional models have the ability to resolve high-impact weather, such as thunderstorms, said AccuWeathers Scott Mackaro, vice president, Science, Innovation & Development. Information about the vertical structure of the atmosphere is vital and already sparse. Aircraft measurements provide just that.