Shamal events are extra‐tropical weather systems which occur in winter (cold and dry winds) as well as summer (hot and humid winds) with strong northwesterly or northerly winds blowing over the Arabian Peninsula. We have used Weather Research and Forecasting ( WRF ) model to simulate a major winter shamal event (having duration of 3–5 days), which occurred in 2008 and analysed the spatial structure and time evolution of shamal...