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Dusty conditions make visibility drop to 3km

Met Office predicts a foggy morning on Sunday, especially in coastal and interior parts of the country.

  • By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
  • Published: 15:31 February 16, 2008
  • Gulf News

  • Motorists on Muroor Street yesterday in Abu Dhabi had a tough time due to poor visibility caused by dust raised by the northwesterly wind.
  • Image Credit: Abdul Rahman/Gulf News

Abu Dhabi: Motorists had a tough time on Saturday due to poor visibility caused by dusty weather.

Weathermen said the northwesterly flow of air associated with high pressure the previous night caused the dusty weather.

"It started to flow all over the country during late night on Friday and the air mass suspended with dust reduced the horizontal visibility over the central and western parts of the country," said a spokesperson of the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) in Abu Dhabi.

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He said the visibility on Saturday morning was reduced to about 3km but will improve today. Normal visibility is about 10km.

The centre forecasts foggy weather early on Sunday, especially in coastal and interior parts of the country.

A spokesperson of Abu Dhabi Airport Company said the dusty weather did not affect operations yesterday.

The presence of the air mass increased the relative humidity yesterday and there was a substantial drop in temperature.

Although shallow and broken clouds appeared over western and central coasts of the country on Saturday, no rain was reported.

Maximum temperature on Saturday in coastal areas was 22 to 26 degrees Celsius and minimum 14 to 18 degrees Celsius.

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