Atmospheric Hazard: Little Precipitation

Rain and Precipitation in Egypt (mm/year)

Egypt essentially has a hot dessert climate. It is dry, with practically no rainfall all over the country.
There is roughly 100-200 millimeters of rain per year around the northern Mediterranean coast.
However, this only happens during the winter. Throughout most of the year, Egypt is dry with 0 to few
millimeters of rain. During the summer, Egypt faces extreme heat, although the temperatures are a bit
more moderate around the northern coast. There is not much that we can do to fight nature and its
weather patterns, but Egyptian government can fund releasing silver oxides in the air which increases
precipitation.

Rain and Precipitation in North Africa (mm/year)

Now let’s take a look at precipitation in North Africa including Egypt. The area north and south of the
Tropic of Cancer is known as the Tropical Desert Region. There is 0 to few millimeters of rainfall in this
area. Because no clouds form in the area, there is nothing blocking the heat from the sun. It is dry and
hot all year round, with extreme high temperatures in the summer. The difference in temperatures
between day and night is greater than most other places, because the desert tends to cool off faster
since clouds don’t block heat from escaping. Again, the only way to mitigate the weather issue, is to
release silver oxide to increase precipitation.

Rain and Precipitation in Africa (mm/year)

If we take a look at Africa as a whole, there is quite a generous amount of precipitation near the equator
and it lessens as we move north or south. In the equatorial region, shaded in dark blue, precipitation
amounts to over 3000 millimeters of rain per year. The range of temperature varies little between
summer and winter, it is hot and wet all year round. This area has heavy downpours almost every
afternoon and the hot and humid climate is hard to bear. The savannah region around the equatorial
region, which is shaded in a lighter blue, ranges from 1000 to 1500 millimeters of rain per year. There
are high temperatures and a lot of rainfall during the summer in this region. As we move back to the
Tropical Desert Region, precipitation comes to a minimum. The Mediterranean region, the orange and
yellow shaded region in the north, is comparatively more moderate, but still dry with some rainfall in
the winter.

Works Cited

http://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/#/

http://www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/countries/climate/egypt_climate.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpbhd3GSEVw