Forecast: Temperatures will rise, heat stress in most areas
Temperatures will rise throughout the week, and heat stress will intensify in most areas. On Friday, it will be hotter than usual and dry in the mountains and inland, and humid on the coastal plain. From Saturday, a drop in temperatures will begin, and they will return to being normal for the season.
After the morning clouds disperse, the weather today (Thursday) will become fair. Temperatures will rise and be slightly higher than usual for the season, mainly in the mountains and inland. There will be an intensification of heat stress in most areas, and from the afternoon, northern winds will strengthen along the coastal plain.
Extreme heat stress is expected in the southern Golan Heights and its slopes, the northern valleys, the Lower Galilee, the Kinneret valley, the Dead Sea coast, the Jordan Valley, and the Arava. Heavy heat stress is expected in the northern Golan Heights, the Upper Galilee, the Western Galilee, the Carmel and Menashe heights, the coastal plain, the Shephelah, the central mountains, the northern Negev, the Judean Desert, and the eastern and Negev plateau. At night, it will be partly cloudy.
Tomorrow, a further rise in temperatures will be felt in most areas; it will become hotter than usual and dry in the mountains and inland, and humid on the coastal plain. Heat stress will be extreme in most areas. On Saturday, a slight drop in temperatures will be felt, mainly in the mountains and inland, and some relief in heat stress will be felt, although it will be heavy to extreme in most areas. On Sunday, temperatures will continue to drop, mainly in the mountains and inland, and they will return to being normal for the season.
Forecasted temperatures for today and tonight: Jerusalem 19-32, Tel Aviv 23-31, Haifa 24-31, Safed 18-34, Katzrin 19-38, Tiberias 22-38, Nazareth 22-34, Afula 22-36, Beit She'an 24-39, Lod 23-32, Ashdod 24-31, Ein Gedi 27-40, Beersheba 22-34, Mitzpe Ramon 21-34, Eilat 28-40.
