The winter that returned to us in a big way last week, will continue to show its signs even today, but next week the amounts of rain will decrease and towards the end of the week the temperatures will start to rise. The evening and night (Saturday) will be very cold. Kiryat Shmona 15-4, Katzrin 13-3, Safed 11-1, Tiberias 18-6, Nazareth 14-3, Haifa 17-6, Tel Aviv 17-8, Jerusalem 12-4, Ashkelon 17-8 Ein Gedi 20 -13, Beer Sheva 17-5, Arad 14-4 Mitzpe Ramon 13-3 and Eilat 22-11.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy to clear, with a slight rise in temperatures and on Monday partly cloudy, in the north of the country and in the mountains there may be local rain. On Tuesday it will be partly cloudy to cloudy and occasional local rain accompanied by thunderstorms mainly in the center of the country and in the south and there will be a drop in temperatures, there is a fear of floods in the eastern and southern streams, strong east winds will blow.
On Wednesday it is expected to be partly cloudy to clear, with a slight rise in temperatures mainly in the mountains and in the south of the country, in the morning there may be a drizzle. On Thursday it will be partly cloudy to clear with no significant change.
As mentioned, last week the Water Authority announced that the rainy system led to an increase of eight cm in the level of the Sea of Galilee and up to the upper line only 68 cm are missing. An interim summary by the director of the climate department at the Meteorological Service, headed by Dr. Amos Porat, about the rainy, stormy and snowy weather, shows that the snow has reached a height of 40 to 55 cm in the Golan Heights. In areas higher than 900 meters, 15-5 cm in the Upper Galilee (mainly east of Meron), 10-5 cm in Samaria and Jerusalem and its surroundings and 25-15 cm in Gush Etzion and the peaks of the Hebron Mountains.
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The most snowy reporting point was in Alrom in the northern Golan Heights, where 55 cm were measured. Slightly lower at an altitude of 900 to 950 meters above sea level were measured 45 cm in Alonei HaBashan and 45-40 cm in Ortal. Meters above sea level, measured 13 cm and even in Jonathan, which is 560 meters high, measured 3 cm. In the Upper Galilee, however, the amounts of snow were much smaller. Snow piled up from a height of about 800 meters to a few centimeters.
From the beginning of the system on Tuesday afternoon, precipitation fell in the northern mountains 100-60 mm, in the northern Golan and its center more than 100 mm, in the Hula Valley and the Sea of Galilee 70-40 mm, and in the coastal plain there were similar amounts, but in several stations more were measured From 100 mm. In Samaria 120-80 mm fell, in the Judean mountains 80-50 mm and in Gush Etzion 100-80 mm. The amounts of rain decreased sharply to the south. About 10 mm fell in the northern Negev and less than 5 mm south of there.