The Pleiades will rise in the country’s skies on June 7 for 13 days

On June 7, the country’s sky will witness the rise of the Pleiades from above the eastern horizon. The direction from which the Pleiades stars rise in “Deira” or the ancient navigational compass is called “Pleiades Rise,” and it is inclined from the true east by about 25 degrees towards the north.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Astronomical Society and member of the Arab Federation for Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ibrahim Al-Jarwan, said: Arabs are interested in the time when the Pleiades stars rise above the eastern horizon at dawn, as it is a sign of the onset of “sweltering heat” and intense summer heat. The Arabs say: “sweltering is from the rising of the Pleiades to the rising of Suhail,” and hot weather for the Arabs is a time of intense heat and drought.

According to the people of Al-Anwa, the number of days for the “Pleiades ascendant” is 13 days, extending from June 7 to June 19, while the “Pleiades season” includes the rising of the two positions of “Pleiades” and its satellite, “Al-Dabran,” and extends from June 7 to July 2, which is the first of the hot seasons, followed by “Gemini season” and “Al-Marzam,” which is the middle of the heat and extreme heat and drought, and finally the “Kulaibian season,” in which the humidity increases with the high temperature, so The weather is stressful, and the kos, which is the humid and moderately hot south-eastern wind, becomes active. Then the intensity of the heat subsides and the heat finally clears with the rise of the “Suhail” star at the end of August.

He added that the average high temperatures during the day are between 40-43 degrees Celsius and the lowest temperatures at night are 28-31 degrees Celsius. The heat waves are interspersed with heat waves in which the upper temperatures rise by no less than 4 degrees Celsius above the normal average and last for a period of not less than two days. The Arabs call them “wagharat” and they are repeated during the heat and are accompanied by northwesterly summer winds that raise dust and are called “Al-Bawareh” or “Al-Bareh” winds. The winds are also active. “Sumoon” is a dry summer north/northwesterly wind that moves sand and sometimes raises dust.

During the “Pleiades Season,” the sun’s rays are perpendicular to the Tropic of Cancer, so that the sun reaches its maximum tilt to the north with the summer solstice on June 21, and the meridian shadow disappears and disappears at the Tropic of Cancer (where the southern regions of the country are). The day reaches its maximum length and the night its shortest in the northern half of the earth. Among agriculturalists, summer heat is considered the season of harvesting and reaping the fruits of palm trees. It is said “the heat of Dhaid” or “the heat of the eye,” meaning the ripeness of the wet, and for them areas may wake up before other areas. Other.