Workers pump water on a street flooded by heavy rain in Cairo, Egypt on March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
CAIRO, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The weather began to clear up in Egypt on Saturday after a two-day rainstorm that has caused at least 20 deaths in various accidents.
The rare stormy weather was "the worst to hit Egypt in decades" according to Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, who said on Friday that the country hasn't experienced such a bad weather for nearly 35 or 40 years.
The extreme weather started on Thursday, causing several accidents including vehicle crashes, house demolitions, fallen trees and electrocutions.
It was also blamed for Thursday's train crash in the capital Cairo that left 13 people injured.
On Saturday morning, traffic started to be resumed gradually though still strangled by remaining puddles on some bridges, main roads and highways across the country.
The storm was caused by a confrontation of a southern seasonal trough coming from Sudan carrying surface hot air and northern upper atmosphere cold air coming from Europe, according to meteorological experts.
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) said on Saturday that the weather will be "mostly warm during the day and very cold at night" in most parts of the country.
Eman Shaker, head of EMA's Remote Sensing Center, said that the weather will comparatively clear up on Saturday, windspeed will become slower and rain will be lighter.
"In the afternoon, the weather will be comparatively better across Egypt, the amount of rain will be lighter in the northern parts of the country and may vanish in Upper Egypt," the meteorological official told Xinhua on Saturday.
"Starting from Sunday, usual morning mist will return and the weather will be normal," she added.
