The Department of Meteorology at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation expected the weather in Lebanon today, Friday, to be partly cloudy to cloudy with a rise in temperatures and remain below their seasonal rates, with a warning of the risk of ice forming on mountain roads above 1000 meters during the night. In the early morning hours of Saturday.
General condition:
The weather is relatively stable on the eastern basin of the Mediterranean until Saturday night, when we will be affected by an air depression centered in northwest Turkey, accompanied by cold air masses, rain and snow. (The average temperature on the coast for the month of January is between 11 and 19 degrees Celsius).
Expected weather in Lebanon:
– Saturday: Few clouds in general with an additional and slight increase in temperatures, the evening turns into cloudy with the formation of fog on the heights, and the wind speed intensifies and the sea waves rise with it as the depression approaches.
– Sunday: Cloudy with strong winds of regarding 80 km/h before noon, the sea waves will rise (3 meters), so we warn once morest flying billboards on the roads.
– Monday: Cloudy with thick fog on the heights. Heavy rain falls in the morning, accompanied by thunderstorms and active winds. Snow falls at a height of 1,000 meters and below, in the north and inland. The evening precipitation decreases.
Expected temperatures range: On the coast from 8 to 17 degrees, above the mountains from 2 to 10 degrees, inland from 1 to 11 degrees.
Surface wind: From south to southwest, its speed is between 10 and 35 km / h.
Visibility: Good, gets worse at higher altitudes due to fog.
– Relative humidity on the coast: between 50 and 70%
Sea condition: The average height of the moor.
Water surface temperature: 18 degrees.
– Atmospheric pressure: 772 mm Hg.
Source: SMD