المملكة: Thunderstorms and hail showers… Friday weather forecast in Saudi Arabia

While the effect of active winds stirring dust continues, and leads to a near lack of horizontal visibility in parts of those areas, as well as in parts of the Riyadh region.

Red Sea

• Surface winds: southwesterly to northwesterly in the northern part, at a speed of 15-40 km/h, reaching 60 km/h, with the formation of rainy thunderstorms, and southeasterly to southwesterly in the central and southern part, at a speed of 20-45 km/h.
• Wave height: from half a mile. One to one and a half meters, reaching a height of two and a half metres, with rainy thunderclouds forming over the northern part, and from one and a half to two and a half meters over the central and southern part.
• Sea state: Light to medium waves, with rainy thunderclouds forming over the northern part, and medium to wavy waves over the central and southern parts.

Arabian Gulf

• Surface winds: northerly to northwesterly, gradually turning southerly to southerly. Easterly at a speed of 10-30 km/h, reaching 50 km/h with the formation of rainy thunderclouds over the northern part, and southeasterly to southwesterly at a speed of 10-25 km/hour over the southern part.
• Wave height: from half a meter to a meter, reaching a height of more than two and a half metres, with rainy thunderclouds forming over the northern part.
• Sea state: Light wave reaching wavy with the formation of thunderclouds. Rainy.