New Year 2022 brought surprising storms in southern Egypt.
Only in November 2022, a severe storm hit the driest place on the Earth – Aswan, where poisonous scorpions caused several deaths and 500 hospitalized /https://mkweather.com/the-driest-city-in-the-world-hit-severe-hailstorms-escaping-poisonous-scorpions-caused-3-dead-and-500-hospitalized//.
It was only the start of upcoming early-winter conditions in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, thanks to dominant NAO-/AO- phases in the last almost 2 months.
Winter in the region is forecast to continue until the start of February 2022 /https://mkweather.com/huge-waterspout-near-the-coast-of-ashdod-israel-the-coast-of-israel-lebanon-syria-cyprus-turkey-and-parts-of-the-middle-east-with-the-next-severe-storms-ahead// and Egypt reported in the last time the next severe storm events.
From the most interesting storms in the last period, it was a mainly severe hailstorm in Hurghada, SE Egypt.
Quite a rare event in the desert city brought an accumulation of large hail and people everything captured on their phones.
Before the storm, the maximum temperature only of +26,0°C was measured on 1. January, while on 3. January, after a transition of the frontal boundary, only colder days with +21,2°C appeared.
Severe storms are during AO-/NAO- more typical for the coast of northern Egypt /https://mkweather.com/extreme-siberian-winter-in-egypt-snow-in-alexandria-kharga-almost-with-an-absolute-minimum-record//, where sometimes floods, winds or rare snowfall or tornadoes should appear.
Early Spring weather should arrive with NAO+/AO+ already during February 2022 /https://mkweather.com/ecmwf-6-week-forecast-for-europe-until-21-february-2022/; https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-will-come-in-february-nao-and-extremely-warm-early-spring-conditions-in-february-and-march-2022-are-predicted-cfs-ecmwf/; https://mkweather.com/spring-and-autumn-2022-forecast-for-africa-mostly-stormy-and-hot-south-colder//, firstly to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, later to Libya, and Egypt.
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