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

2. 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 .

3. 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 .

4. 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 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 .

5. Winter monsoon effect in Afghanistan

6. Precipitation and Heavy Snow in JAN and Feb 2017

7. 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

9. Afghan Simple Forecast report

10. 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.

11. Nuristan province Avalanche

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