Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority Afghanistan Meteorological Department(AMD) Meteorology Department of Afghanistan Forecast Center September 2017

Afghanistan Climate Afghanistan is a mountainous county in a dry part of the word Winters are cold and snowy ,summers hot and dry the wet season generally runs from winter through early spring , but the country on the whole is dry . The climate is typical of an arid or semiarid . Very little snow falls in the lowland deserts of the southwest , but the snow season averages roughly October – April in the mountains and varies considerably with elevation . The mountain regions of the northeast are Subarctic with dry and cold winters. In the mountains bordering Pakistan , a divergent fringe effect of the monsoon .

Effect of Indian monsoon in Afghanistan The main source of Indian monsoon is the up stream of Tibetan plateau Indian monsoon bring tropical air masses that determine the climate between July and September at that times these air masses advance in to central and southern Afghanistan bringing increased humidity and some rain .

Geo-Climatic In whole Afghanistan has a dry continental climate with a large diurnal temperature range. However, the country is mountainous affected mainly by Mediterranean, Indian Monsoon cyclones, Gulf and seldom by Siberian cyclones. The average rain precipitation in desert areas is less than 250 mm, in plain areas 300 mm and in highlands 700-950 and even 1212 mm/ had been recorded. Mainly the country is affected by seasonal rain precipitation and snowfall. People suffer from natural disasters every year in Afghanistan province , people lost their properties and lives the must critical disasters are earthquake , landslides, drought and floods which are cased enormous lost , humanitarian , and financial resources. In recent year , more investment on reconstruction project have been done in Afghanistan but unfortunately , in the mining sector or natural disaster risk reduction , very less investment and assessment .

Winter monsoon effect in Afghanistan

Precipitation and Heavy Snow in JAN and Feb 2017

Mean, maximum, minimum Temperature and Precipitation for five province of Afghanistan from (first of Jan to end of Dec) STATION PARAMETER YEAR JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC KABUL MEAN TEMP 2016 3.6 6 9.5 13.4 20.7 24.8 26.2 24.6 21.9 15.3 8.5 5.9 MAX TEMP 10.9 15 15.1 20.5 29.1 33.7 34 31.6 32.1 25.2 18.9 16.4 MIN TEMP -1.7 4.5 6.7 12 15.9 17.6 16 6.6 0.1 -1.8 PRCP(MM) 39.1 113.1 103 17.1 12.8 0.5 2.1 1.3 3.1 GARDIZ 4.3 3.7 7.3 11.2 18.8 22.8 23.2 22 20.3 13 6.4 0.9 7.8 11.5 12.5 25.3 29.6 30.4 29.2 28 21.1 11.7 7.2 -3.5 -3.9 2.6 5.5 15.4 16.7 4 1.1 -4.4 85.6 6.9 171.9 117.8 51.6 13.5   MAZAR 6.1 8.1 14.4 18.6 32.7 34.4 32.5 28.4 17.3 8.6 12.3 15.6 35 40.3 38.5 35.7 24.2 12.2 0.6 0.3 8.7 20.2 25.1 27.2 25 9.6 2.7 1.5 49.6 11.4 62.1 59.1 8 Trs 36.5 36.3 N-SALANG -7.9 -6.7 -2.4 6.3 9.2 8.9 2 -3.4 -8.2 -2 10.2 7.5 -0.2 -10.4 -10.8 5.2 -2.9 4.8 3.5 -2.2 -6 -10.9 113.7 81.9 203.7 140.2 88.1 37.5 8.8 81.7 71 FAIZABAD 5.4 7.1 15.7 21 28.7 25.7 23 17 9 6.5 11 28.9 34.8 33.1 14.1 -1.2 8.3 17.5 20.8 16.6 8.2 3.9 1 40.2 17.2 88.5 107.5 47.6 4.7

Afghan Simple Forecast report

Feb 2017 Avalanches in Afghanistan killed at least 119 in and 89 people have been injured and 190 homes destroyed by avalanches in multiple provinces. Many of the most recent fatalities come from Nuristan province, near the Pakistani border .where two villages were buried in snow rescue teams have so far recovered 48 bodies from those villages and that more than 1,000 hectares of farmland have been destroyed.

Nuristan province Avalanche

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