Hot Weather to Prevail in Egypt on Saturday, Temp to Rise Significantly

Experts of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) forecast hot weather to prevail across the country on Saturday.

Temperature degrees will rise significantly over the coming days. It will be hot in Cairo and the Delta today.

Water mist hangs over the Delta and Cairo in the morning.

There are chances for light rain in disperse patches, some of them will receive thunder rain over the hours to come.

Moderate winds blow up in most parts of the country but they get fresher in some areas.

Middle and Upper Egypt are expected to see very hot weather during the hours of the daytime. Cairo and the Delta would experience cold weather at night.

Major Temperature degree in Cairo will be 38 C and the minor one will be 22 C.

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.