Above-average temperatures, thundershowers expected over some regions

Damascus, SANA- Temperatures continue to rise to become from 6 to 9 degrees above average, as the country is affected by the Indian monsoon depressions accompanied by western subtropical high air pressure in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

‘The weather will be very hot, the skies will be clear to partly cloudy in the southern, western and central regions with a little opportunity for showers accompanied with thunder, while it will be misty and dusty in the eastern, al-Jazeera and al-Badia regions’, Meteorological Department said.

The wind will be easterly to southeasterly in the southern and southeastern regions, with low to a moderate speed and some active gusts, meanwhile it will be westerly to northwesterly in the other regions, the sea waves will be low in amplitude.

The expected temperatures in some Syrian cities will be as follows: Damascus 42/27, Daraa 42/27, Homs 42/24, Hasaka 46/31, Tartous 32/20, Aleppo 43/25, Deir Ezzor 49/35.

Rafah al-Allouni