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Hurricane stories are fake, says Dubai Met office
The met office has denied as false stories circulating that a hurricane is forming over the Indian Ocean and is heading towards the Arabian Gulf and will hit Oman and other Gulf states hard.
- By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
- Published: 13:06 June 17, 2008
Dubai: The met office has denied as false stories circulating that a hurricane is forming over the Indian Ocean and is heading towards the Arabian Gulf and will hit Oman and other Gulf states hard.
"It's all rumours," said the duty forecaster at the Dubai Met Office, adding that there is absolutely no chance of rain.
Dr S.K. Gupta, duty forecaster, said there is a huge depression in the Bay of Bengal and that is why West Bengal and coastal towns of Orissa State in India have been deluged.
To give it some sort of authenticity, the fake e-mails say that US Navy is expecting the hurricane to dump 70mm of rain on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and hail in Dubai on Friday and Saturday.
The duty forecaster said strong north-westerly winds over the northern part of the Gulf are "really bad" and have whipped up a thick dust haze.
The winds will continue to blanket the emirates with dust for the next two days, which are coming from Baghdad, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain and Doha, Qatar, he said.
The winds have brought down the temperature to at least 3 degrees below the normal during June, to 37 degrees Celsius.
The met office lifted the marine warning on Tuesday. Though the sea is not rough, long swells have developed and waves are still 3 to 4 feet, said the forecaster.
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