UAE | Environment

Forecasters predict hot and sunny weekend in the UAE

It will be hot and sunny over the weekend with the temperature touching 40 degree Celsius during the day and pleasantly warm during the night, according to the Dubai Met Office.

  • By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
  • Published: 13:46 April 29, 2009
  • Gulf News

  • Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
  • Early mornings and nights the temperature will hover around 29 degree Celsius and will be "warm and pleasant".

Dubai: It will be hot and sunny over the weekend with the temperature touching 40 degree Celsius during the day and pleasantly warm during the night, according to the Dubai Met Office.

The dry hot wind is blowing from the desert into the UAE from the south east, said the duty forecaster, noting that the temperature is normal for this time of the year.

Early mornings and nights the temperature will hover around 29 degree Celsius and will be "warm and pleasant".

Over the next two days the winds will change to north-westerly, with winds offshore of 15 knots, whipping up waves up to 3 feet.

In Sharjah, and the northern emirates the day-time temperature was 41 degree Celsius and humidity at 10 per cent on Wednesday. "It (the temperature) is a little above normal," said the forecaster.


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