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Temperature expected to rise steadily in the UAE
Dust haze will be very bad across the coastal belt of Ras Al Khaimah as winds are blowing from Iran across the Arabian Gulf where visibility is less than one kilometer, according to Dubai met office.
- By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
- Published: 12:45 April 21, 2008
- Image Credit: Arshad Ali/Gulf News
- There will be no blue skies for the next two days or visibility stretching to 20 kilometers, said Dr. S.K. Gupta, duty forecaster.
Dubai: Dust haze will be very bad across the coastal belt of Ras Al Khaimah as winds are blowing from Iran across the Arabian Gulf where visibility is less than one kilometer, according to Dubai met office.
"There will be no blue skies for the next two days or visibility stretching to 20 kilometers," said Dr. S.K. Gupta, duty forecaster. Visibility will be down to five to six kilometers and the temperature is expected to rise steadily. "It is getting quite warm as mercury climbs to 34 to 35 degrees Celsius," he said.
The highest temperature Dubai recorded so far was 39 degrees Celsius last week. "There is no official date when summer is declared. It is not dramatic and it comes up on us gradually," said the forecaster.
But starting next month in May, the met office officially brings in the comfort index, where less than three is usually comfortable and 9 is ‘extreme stress' because of high temperatures and high humidity.
With the dry spell coming in there will be no morning fog now, according to Gupta.
The past few days have been bad with low visibility and a dust haze hanging in the air reducing Dubai's landmarks to shadows.
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