11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 21°
Wind↑ NW 15 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 38 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NW 23 km/h
Humidity 14 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
22°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ NNW 10 km/h
Humidity 29 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ N 23 km/h
Humidity 17 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 12 km/h
Humidity 27 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
32°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ ENE 10 km/h
Humidity 21 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
26°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ SE 7 km/h
Humidity 30 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
32°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ WNW 8 km/h
Humidity 23 %
Abu al-Kahsib forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Abu al-Kahsib climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 170 mm of rain — less than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Day and night differ most in September: 43 °C in the afternoon against 27 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 47 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (37 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
18 °C
9 °C
36 mm
Feb
22 °C
11 °C
19 mm
Mar
27 °C
14 °C
25 mm
Apr
33 °C
20 °C
11 mm
May
40 °C
27 °C
5 mm
Jun
45 °C
30 °C
0 mm
Jul
47 °C
32 °C
0 mm
Aug
47 °C
31 °C
0 mm
Sep
43 °C
28 °C
1 mm
Oct
37 °C
22 °C
7 mm
Nov
27 °C
15 °C
35 mm
Dec
20 °C
10 °C
33 mm
Whole year
34 °C
21 °C
170 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 30.44° N, 47.88° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Abu al-Kahsib: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.543µg/m³
PM1073µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Abu al-Kahsib
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Abu al-Kahsib, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Abu al-Kahsib yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Abu al-Kahsib
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:22 Set 16:35
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Baghdad); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Abu al-Kahsib
Curious about the weather in Abu al-Kahsib on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Abu al-Kahsib weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Abu al-Kahsib, Basra: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 29 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 26 °C to 34 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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