{"id":54820,"date":"2025-08-08T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=54820"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:15:32","slug":"the-new-crescent-weather-maps-and-geographical-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=54820","title":{"rendered":"The New Crescent: Weather, Maps, and Geographical Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elder G<\/strong> has suggested a location for The New Crescent in the area:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Crescent series<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next in the series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Location:<\/strong> Egypt\u2019s northeastern Sinai coast, possibly near El Arish or the Rafah border, is often underdeveloped and sparsely populated\u2014yet strategically close to Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Egypt essentially has a hot desert climate (K\u00f6ppen climate classification BWh). The climate is generally extremely dry all over the country except on the northern Mediterranean coast which receives rainfall in winter. In addition to rarity of rain, extreme heat during summer months is also a general climate feature of Egypt although daytime temperatures are more moderated along the northern coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khamas\u012bn<\/strong>
Every year, sometime from March to May, an extremely hot, dry and dusty wind blows from the south or the southwest. This wind is called khamas\u012bn. When the flow of dry air continuously blows over vast desert regions, it picks up fine sand and dust particles and finally results in a dusty wind which is generally felt in the periphery of the desert. When this wind blows over Egypt, it causes high temperatures to soar temporarily at dangerous levels, usually over 49\u201350 \u00b0C (120\u2013122 \u00b0F), the relative humidity levels to drop under 5%. The khamas\u012bn causes sudden, early heat waves and the absolute highest temperature records in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egypt receives between 20 mm (0.79 in) and 200 mm (7.87 in) of annual average precipitation along the narrow Mediterranean coast, but south from Cairo, the average drops to nearly 0 millimetres (0.00 inches) in the central and the southern part of the country. The cloudiest, rainiest places are in and around Alexandria<\/strong> and Rafah<\/strong>. The sunshine duration is high all over Egypt, ranging from a low of 3,300 hours along the northernmost part in places such as Alexandria to reach a high of over 4,000 hours farther in the interior, in most of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Al Jazeera<\/a> has some beautiful photos of a rare snowfall in Jerusalem, in February of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elder G has suggested a location for The New Crescent in the area: New Crescent series \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next in the series Location: Egypt\u2019s northeastern Sinai coast, possibly near El Arish or the Rafah border, is often underdeveloped and sparsely populated\u2014yet strategically close to Gaza. Al Jazeera has some beautiful photos of a rare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-the-new-crescent"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64142,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54820\/revisions\/64142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}