Temperatures
for Cairo around the year
" Hot, dry summers with moderate winters"
Climate and travel to Egypt
Egypt has the Nile Delta on the coast same
as Mediterranean climate, generally a warm country,
while at winter night in north coast it can
be cool till reaching the freezing point. Of
course, the temperatures vary depending on time
of day, In Cairo, as well as in Middle and Upper
Egypt is a Mediterranean and desert-like climate.
Along the Red Sea there are year-round resorts
destinations. The most pleasant seasons are
spring and autumn. In the summer, it can sometimes
be hot up to 40 ° Celsius during the day while
in winter the thermometer rarely falls below
18 ° Celsius. Egypt and North Africa regions
are located in the rain shadow of the great
weather areas. And Egypt itself, as part of
the Sahara lies in the center of this region,
only far away from Egypt to begin in the equatorial
zone, so why this move equatorial low pressure
areas every summer to the Tropic of Cancer,
but the mighty clouds of the inter tropical
convergence zone of Africa, thus it can rain
in southern and central Sudan in the summer
months While in Egypt, the summer rain fails
to materialize. Over most months, Egypt is practically
rainless. However rain may come to short showers
in winter months, Sometimes rain penetrate to
Cairo,
The humidity on Mediterranean coast is normally
up to 60 or even 70 percent because the rising
water vapor, In Cairo it is between 30 and 50
percent. The farther travelers go in Egypt,
the lower the humidity is . However sometimes
the difference between day and night temperature
may cause smog and haze weather which happens
in high way north part of Egypt, to the south,
Egypt is becoming drier with sunny weather,
the worst phenomenon takes place in the early
of the summer called "Chamsin or khamseen,
mean "fifties wind", usually comes
With a very hot and bone-dry desert winds from
the south and southwest. It arises because depressions
moving eastwards along the southern parts of
the Mediterranean or along the North African
coast from March to May taking the from of a
strong anticyclone over the Mediterranean Sea
and a strong low pressure area. These weather
conditions will cause to have the hot air from
the desert downright sucked. In such extreme
weather conditions, the humidity may drop to
10-20 percent and the temperature may rise above
40 degrees. On these days, you feel as if a
huge hot hair dryer is blowing all the time
. The evaporation rate is extremely high, travelers
are highly recommended to drink a lot of water
, and fluids to avoid dehydration.
Egypt Climate changes:
- Recently anyone who studies closely on his
trip to Egypt could notice significant of evaporation
occur over 5,250-square-mile lake clouds, which
not existed before in this region. So it become
sometimes sultry days in Aswan, also could even
give rainstorm. This new development is in stark
contrast to the really bone-dry climate of Aswan.
- also travelers could notice from the murals
and reliefs in Egyptian tombs stories, or even
with a chance to visit in the Gilf Kebir (in
the southwestern corner of Egypt's Western Desert),
the petro glyphs of the Egyptian Sahara, Will
recognize changes from thousands of years ago
in the prevailed flora and Fauna of Egypt &
the fact of that it was not always a pure desert
country, The rainfall was significantly higher
and the evaporation significantly because of
the dense clouds, in the second half of the
4th Millennium BC, Egyptian western desert was
a large, dry, desert region with less than 50
mm annual rainfall. Today, this area belongs
to the hyper-arid regions in general, Even the
Arab east of the Nile Valley stretching desert
still showed greater amounts of precipitation,
which is partly due to the altitude of the local
mountains of red sea. The drier the climate
became, the more attracted to the nomads into
the border regions of the desert, to back into
the oases and along the banks of the Nile. Also
kick out Egyptian famous Dorcas gazelle, Sable
antelope, leopards, Wild cattle, ostrich, lions
and cheetahs.
Difference between night and day temperatures
in Egypt is high especially near desert area
during the winter; also they might be big difference
between temperatures inside your tourism bus
or between hotel room or camping tent and the
out side.
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