Skies cloudy to rainy, snow expected over mountains

Damascus, SANA- Temperatures will witness a notable drop to become from 3 to 5 degrees below average as the country is affected by a low air pressure accompanied by a cold and wet air mass in all layers of the atmosphere.

Meteorology Department expected in its Wednesday bulletin that the skies will be partly cloudy to cloudy and rainy in most areas and the rains will be heavy particularly in the northern and western areas, while snow will fall over the mountains whose height exceeds 1100 meters.

The wind will be southwesterly with a low to moderate speed with active gusts sometimes in the coastal and the southeastern regions and it will be with a low to moderate speed in the eastern and northern regions while the sea waves will be medium to high in amplitude.

The expected temperatures in some major Syrian cities will be as follow: Damascus 8-4, Daraa 9-6, Homs 9-5, Lattakia 14-9, Aleppo 10-5 and Deir Ezzor 12-5.

Ruaa al-Jazaeri