{"id":36430,"date":"2026-01-23T02:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/abha-tops-saudi-cities-in-thunderstorm-exposure-with-over-59-days-annually\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:12:33","slug":"abha-tops-saudi-cities-in-thunderstorm-exposure-with-over-59-days-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/abha-tops-saudi-cities-in-thunderstorm-exposure-with-over-59-days-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Abha tops Saudi cities in thunderstorm exposure, with over 59 days annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record Thunderstorm Days Across Saudi Cities Revealed in Meteorology Report<\/p>\n<p>A report from the National Center for Meteorology detailed the average annual number of thunderstorm days in Saudi cities from 1985 to 2025, based on long-term climate monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Abha topped the list with 59 thunderstorm days per year, followed by Ta\u2019if with 45 days, and both Khamis Mushait and Al-Baha with 44 days each.<\/p>\n<p>Other regions recorded the following averages: Jazan 33 days; Al-Qassim and Hail 19 days each; Bisha, Mecca, and Dammam 17 days each.<\/p>\n<p>Madinah recorded 15 days, Riyadh 14 days, Najran 13 days, Rafha, Al-Ahsa, Arar, and Al-Jawf 11 days each.<\/p>\n<p>Jeddah had 10 days, Wadi Al-Dawasir 9 days, Tabuk and Yanbu 8 days, Al-Qurayyat 7 days, and Sharurah 6 days. At the lower end, Turaif had 5 days and Al-Wajh 4 days annually.<\/p>\n<p>The report aims to present the climatic characteristics of Saudi regions using documented observational data, as part of ongoing long-term climate monitoring efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record Thunderstorm Days Across Saudi Cities Revealed in Meteorology Report A report from the National Center for Meteorology detailed the average annual number of thunderstorm days in Saudi cities from 1985 to 2025, based on long-term climate monitoring. Abha topped the list with 59 thunderstorm days per year, followed by Ta\u2019if with 45 days, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-saudi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}