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A shamal (Arabic: شمال, 'north') is a northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states (including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), often strong during the day, but decreasing at night. [1] This weather effect occurs from once to several times a year, mostly in summer, but sometimes in winter. [1]
N'aschi (northeastern wind on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and on the Makran coast) Rashabar (or Rashaba) ("black wind") (a strong wind in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, particularly in Sulaimaniya) [4] Shamal (a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states)
October 25, 1948 – A storm moved through much of the eastern Arabian Peninsula, crossing from Salalah, Oman, and dissipating in the Persian Gulf near the United Arab Emirates. [48] The storm dropped 156 mm (6.1 in) of rainfall in Salalah, which later contributed to a locust outbreak.
Super Cyclonic Storm Gonu was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that became the strongest cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea.The second named tropical cyclone of the 2007 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Gonu developed from a persistent area of convection in the eastern Arabian Sea on June 1, 2007.
The 120-day wind or wind of 120 days (Persian: باد صد و بیست روزه, "one hundred and twenty days wind") is a strong summer wind occurring from late May to late September in the east and southeast of the Iranian Plateau, [1] particularly the Sistan Basin. It is so called because it lasts for four months. [2]
The National Centre of Meteorology issued a code red alert off the eastern coast with a warning of 10-foot waves off-shore and wind speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph). [54] A dust storm alert was also issued due to Shaheen on October 4. [55] Warning messages were broadcast in 19 languages, a strategy that involved more than 100 local and national entities.
Persian Gulf at Night from ISS, 2020. The Persian Gulf, [a] sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, [b] is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. [1] It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz.
A short burst of high speed wind is termed a wind gust; one technical definition of a wind gust is: the maxima that exceed the lowest wind speed measured during a ten-minute time interval by 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) for periods of seconds. A squall is an increase of the wind speed above a certain threshold, which lasts for a minute or more.