Morocco braces for unusually high temperatures this week

Morocco braces for unusually high temperatures this week
Wednesday 3 April 2024 - 22:00

After last week’s heavy rainfall, the weather in Morocco has stabilized, but experts expect an unusual rise in temperatures this weekend.

“In general, the weather situation will be characterized by a gradual rise in temperatures until the end of the week, and some scattered showers will affect the High Atlas highlands in the afternoon,” said El Hussein Youabd, communication officer at the General Directorate of Meteorology.

Youabd added, in a statement to Hespress: “The temperature will be high, and will exceed the seasonal average on Friday and Saturday, and then gradually decrease starting Sunday.”

As for Wednesday’s forecast, the communication official at the General Directorate of Meteorology said that “high temperatures will be recorded with rather hot weather in the southeast, the interior of the southern provinces, and the central interior plains, with cumulus clouds recorded in the afternoon in the High Atlas Highlands with some rain or sometimes in the form of local thunderstorms.”

As for Thursday and Friday, Youabed said that “high temperatures will be recorded with rather hot weather in the central interior plains, the southeast of the country, and the interior of our southern provinces, and will also rise on Friday in the interior plains of northern Morocco.”

The General Directorate of Meteorology issued, on Wednesday, a warning bulletin with an orange alert level for some provinces and regions, as temperatures are expected to range between 34 and 39 degrees from Thursday to next Saturday in Faqih Ben Saleh, Beni Mellal, Settat, Kalat Saraghna, Rahamna, Marrakech, Azilal, Al Houz, Youssoufia, Chichaoua, Taroudant, Tata, Tantan, Guelmim, Sidi Ifni, Tarfaya, Laayoune, Boujdour, Smara and Oued El Dahab, according to the directorate general of meteorology.

On Friday, temperatures will range between 34 and 39 degrees in Kenitra, Sidi Slimane, Sidi Kassem, Skhirat-Témara, Khemisset, Salé, Rabat, El Jadida, Sidi Bennour, Nouaceur, Mohammedia, Benslimane, Berrchid, Casablanca, Safi, Essaouira, Chetouka-Ait Baha, Agadir, Inezgane-Ait Melloul and Tiznit.

On Friday and Saturday, temperatures will range between 34 and 38 degrees in Oujda-Angad, Berkane, Driouche, Nador, Karsif and Taourirt.

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