Alert! Dire Weather on Thursday

Experts of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) warn of a dangerous low-pressure area called the Great Dragon, which is expected to hit eight countries in the Middle East due to a spell of dire weather.

Those countries are Egypt, Oman, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine ( Israel), Iraq and Turkey.

The lower-pressure area is also known as the Lower –Pressure of the Century leads to severe changes in the weather of the country on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

According to the European weather maps in Egypt, the country will be exposed to very strong winds which could turn to storms.

The speed of the wind may reach 100km per hour over those three days.

Some parts of the country, especially in the Sinai Peninsula will receive lighting torrents meanwhile Alexandria and Buhiara governorates will be lashed with downpours over the three days of the spell of the broken weather.

The two governorates would receive 110 mm of rain for three days.

The EMA had released a statement says that greater Cairo and the Delta would also be hit by heavy rain as of Thursday.

The northeastern coasts, the middle of the Sinai Peninsula and the south part of it, Middle Egypt and the range of mountains of the Red Sea would receive light rain.

Because her boundaries extend from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to Sudan in the south, Egypt’s climate varies greatly.

Although some tourists venture into the searing heat of the Sahara desert, most confine their travels to the Red Sea coast and the Valley of the Nile.

Around Alexandria and the resorts that fringe the Mediterranean, summertime temperatures usually peak at around 31 Celsius (87F) but further south, in Aswan, temperatures average 41 Celsius (106F).

Although there can be a few wet days each month along the Mediterranean coast, much of Egypt experiences little or no rainfall.

So, with sunshine averaging eight to 10 hours each day in the winter and as much as 12 hours in the summer, tourists can base their choice of time to visit solely on the likely temperatures.

With summer temperatures exceeding 35 Celsius (95F), touring sites around Cairo can be very uncomfortable.

But it should also be pointed out that January and February can be quite chilly months in Cairo and along the northern half of Egypt’s Red Sea coast.

Dust-laden winds may affect almost any part of the country between late March and June. These can give some very unpleasant conditions at times.