Damascus, SANA- The temperatures will drop to become from 2 to 4 degrees below average as the country is affected by a low air pressure accompanied by a cold and wet air mass.
The Meteorology Department expected in its Saturday bulletin that the weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy and rainy and the rains will be heavy and accompanied by thunder sometimes in the coastal areas while sleet will fall over the northern areas and snow will fall over the mountains whose height exceeds 1,200 meters.
The wind will be westerly to southwesterly with a low to moderate speed and the sea waves will be low to medium in height.
Tomorrow, the temperatures will remain below average in most areas and the skies will be partly cloudy and rain showers are expected in different areas while sleet is expected to fall over the northern areas and snow is expected to fall over the mountains whose height exceeds 1,000 meters.
Over the past 24 hours, different amounts of rainfalls were registered in the Syrian provinces as follows: Lattakia 78 mm, Homs 11 mm, Hama 12 mm, Tartous 14 mm and Aleppo 21mm.
The expected temperatures in some of the major Syrian cities will be as follows: Damascus 11/2, Daraa 12/3, Homs 12/2, Lattakia 15/9, Aleppo 9/1 and Deir Ezzor 12/2.
R.J/ Mazen