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Forecast: Rainy and stormy until Saturday, with a slight rise in temperatures
After the snow covered many of the northern and central mountains, the storm will continue even today, but this time it rained mostly.
There is a fear of floods in the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea and a slight fear of flooding in the coastal plain.
On Saturday the rains will stop almost completely, and at the beginning of the week there will be a significant increase in heat
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Yoav Itiel
Friday, February 19, 2021, 00:00
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In the video: Clearing roads during a snowstorm (Photo: Netivei Israel)
After the snow that covered the high northern and central mountains yesterday and today, tonight (Friday) it rained occasionally from the north of the country to the northern Negev.
There are fears of flooding in eastern streams, and it will be very cold.
Snow fell on Mount Hermon, and towards morning there may be light snow in the northern Golan Heights as well.
During the day, it rained intermittently from the north of the country to the northern Negev, which will be accompanied by isolated thunderstorms.
It snowed on Mount Hermon.
There is a fear of floods in the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea and a slight fear of flooding in the coastal plain.
From noon there may be local rain in the south of the country.
Will continue to be colder than usual for the season.
The rains will weaken towards evening.
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Winter weather in Tel Aviv, yesterday (Photo: Reuven Castro)
On Saturday there may still be light local rain, especially in the north and center of the country.
There will be a slight rise in temperatures, but they will still be below normal for the season.
At the beginning of the week the warming trend will continue, and it will be partly cloudy.
On Sunday the temperatures will rise slightly, but they will still be below normal for the season.
On Monday, there will be another slight rise in temperatures, with local rain possible in the north of the country and on the coastal plain.
In the morning, strong east winds will blow in the northern mountains.
Children playing in the snow in the Golan Heights, yesterday (Photo: Flash 90, Michael Giladi)
Forecasted temperatures tonight and tomorrow: in Jerusalem from 4 degrees tonight to 6 degrees tomorrow afternoon;
In Tel Aviv from 10 degrees at night to 14 degrees tomorrow during the day;
In Haifa from 8 degrees at night to 14 degrees during the day;
In Safed from 4 to 5 degrees;
Tiberias 8-14;
Nazareth 6-10;
Afula 8-12;
Beit She'an 11-14;
Lod 9-14;
Ashdod 10-13;
Ein Gedi 14-19;
Beer Sheva 7-13;
Mitzpe Ramon 2-9;
Eilat 10-18.
Many roads that were blocked yesterday due to the heavy snow remained blocked even today, including roads 91, 98 and 99 in the northern Golan Heights and road 89 near Mount Meron.
Road 90 is also blocked from the Dead Sea hotels to Ein Gedi in both directions.
Following the storm: an unusual pollution of tar on beaches
Following the stormy days, an unusual contamination of lumps of viscous tar reached the shores of the country yesterday.
According to the layout of the beaches where they were discovered, which did not include Haifa Bay, it appears that they came from the south and from a great distance.
The source of the tar flakes is probably from a tanker, but the chance of locating those responsible is nil and there is no known vessel in the Mediterranean that reported a malfunction.
The initial discovery was at Habonim Beach followed by Maagan Michael, but later it became clear that this was just the beginning of the largest pollution incident of its kind in the last decade, and tar was seen from Betzet Beach in the north to the shores of Rishon Lezion.
According to initial estimates, these are tens of cubic meters of tar, whose cleaning operations will last several days at an estimated cost of hundreds of thousands of shekels.
Blocks of tar discovered in the coastal strips at Maagan Michael and Habonim (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority)
The Ministry of Environmental Protection has given the event the nickname "Tar in the Storm", but the intensive cleaning operations will actually only begin with the calming of the storm due to the weather conditions.
According to the type of tar and texture, it is currently estimated that this is an emission of oils or oil from a vessel that passed off the coast of Israel.
Simultaneously with the pollution, a 17-foot-tall whale was ejected onto the beach in the southern Nitzanim Reserve.
The Director General of the Nature and Parks Authority, Shaul Goldstein, said that there may be a connection between the emissions and the lumps of tar. According to Goldstein,
We call on the Ministry of Environmental Protection to investigate the incident and find the culprits and punish them severely. "
The whale that was ejected ashore in the Nitzanim Reserve, today (Photo: official website, without)
Dr. Aviad Sheinin, of the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station and the Delphis Association, said that “this is a relatively rare event, the last documentation was in 2016.
Young individuals usually come to our area.
In this case, too, it is a young individual, in the Mediterranean they reach 20 meters in adulthood and in the oceans reach 24 meters.
It is the second largest animal after the blue whale in the world, they are common in the western Mediterranean but rare in the eastern basin. "
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