Summer Solstice
On Wednesday, the date of the summer solstice will take place at 7: 24 am, which will last approximately 93 days, ending on September 22. The Director of the Department of Meteorology, Engineer Hussein Momani said that the sun will rise from the extreme north-east corner of 61 degrees at 5:30 minutes, and absent at the maximum north-west corner of 299 degrees, at exactly 7:45 minutes, so the length of the day 14 Hour and 14 minutes, the longest day of the year, while the length of the night is 9 hours and 46 minutes, which is the shortest night of the year. He said that with the beginning of the summer coup, the sun will be completely vertical in the orbit of the cancer, which is located north of the equator by approximately 23.5 degrees and climate in this period begins the impact of hotwaves, which is the source of wind mostly from the north of the Arabian Peninsula due to the extended impact of the Indian seasonal low, The temperature rises to high levels during the heat waves to 45 ° C in most areas of Jordan, accompanied by an increase in water evaporation, outbreaks of diseases, sun strikes, extreme thirst, low pressure, appearance of some exotic insects. In the capital, Amman, the average temperature of the summer temperature is 9,31 and the average temperature is 4.18. The city of Oman experienced the longest wave of heat for six days in July 1978. The highest temperature recorded in Amman was 5 , Compared with the general average of 0.11 on July 30, 2000 and August 20, 2010. The lowest temperature recorded in Amman during this period was 2.10, which is lower than its general average by 2.7 on June 31, 1958. At the Kingdom level, the highest peak recorded during the summer period was 8,48 at the Wadi Al Rayyan station on 20 August 2010, while the lowest temperature was 4.0 at Al Shobak station on 17 September 2004. This period may see summer rains as happened On the 22nd of 2012 where the city of Irbid recorded 2.9 mm. According to climate records in the Department of Meteorology that the number of hot flashes in the city of Amman during the summer amounted to 64 waves in the past 95 years. The summer of 2010 witnessed the highest temperature and was higher than the general average by 4.2 ° C and 2.25 by the summer of 2015, an increase of 3.2 degrees. The forecasts of the quarterly models of a number of global centers dealt with by the Jordanian Meteorological Service indicate that the summer months will be higher than the general rates from 4.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius and up to 60 percent and also indicate that the month of August will be the highest At temperatures of about 0.6 ° C below its general average.