Today…the coldest days of winter begin in the Emirates

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Astronomy Society, Ibrahim Al-Jarwan, stated that the coldest days of winter begin today, Friday, and continue for 8 days, and the period in the middle of the “shabbat season” is called the “cold azureq” period among the people of the Arabian Gulf, and four days fall during this period. Within (Horoscope of Bliss), which began on January 15, and four within (Horoscope of Town), which begins on January 28. The stars of the Shabat season are (Al-Na`im) and (Al-Baladah).

Al-Jarwan confirmed that this period is the coldest day of winter, especially in open and desert areas, and the cold intensifies, especially when the northern winds blow and their activity corresponds to the “eighty strike” in “Dir al-Tameen” which falls between February 1 and 12, and the strongest northern winter winds occur during this period. .

He stated that according to the natural rates of temperatures in the region, the lowest natural rates of temperatures in the region are between January 12 and 25, and the minimum temperatures in the deep desert wilderness in the morning reach below 8 degrees Celsius in most of these areas, and drop below 5 degrees Celsius in the morning. Sometimes, the lowest temperature recorded (after the year 2000) was with the strongest cold wave witnessed at the beginning of February 2017 and was below -5.7 degrees zero in some areas of the country. .

He pointed out that with the end of Shabat, the intensity of the cold subsides, with the arrival of the “forty days of the scorpions,” which are described as abundant and comprehensive rains.
Al-Jarwan mentioned that the “carp” season is the second season of winter, during which the cold becomes intense and the winds are active, and the carp season extends for 26 days until February 10, and “Al-Na`im” is the fourth house of the seven houses of winter, and the first of the houses of the carp season.

The ostrich stars rise above the eastern horizon at dawn on January 15. They are eight stars in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer), and they include two rectangles. In ancient times, the Arabs called the eastern rectangle (the outgoing ostrich) and the western rectangle (the incoming ostrich). They depicted it in the form of ostriches that go and go in the morning to drink water from the River Al-Majarra, four of which return to the River Al-Majarra. The Arabs called them the incoming ostriches, and four of them departed from the Al-Majarra River, which are the outgoing ostriches.