Dont forget your sunscreen!
Aug 2nd 2005, 7:36 am
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Dont forget your sunscreen!
Woah! Things are really heating up now! 
you have been warned.
:scared:
Nation | Environment
Published: 2/8/2005, 08:27 (UAE)
Dubai swelters as thermometers record hottest day in six years
By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter and Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief
Dubai/Al Ain: Thermometers recorded their hottest day for six years in Dubai yesterday. Elsewhere in the UAE, the mercury climbed above 50C.
The sweltering heat was, however, accompanied by low humidity so going outside at peak hours was more bearable than during the evening.
Forecasters warned residents they will have to cope with another two months of scorching heat before noticing a downturn in temperatures.
Meteorologists recorded a temperature of 47.3C at Dubai International Airport yesterday, the hottest day since August 1999, when a figure of 47.5C was reached.
It was hotter still in Sharjah, where the forecasters' thermometer read 48.2C, and Al Ain, which recorded a similar maximum.
Hottest of the lot was Liwa city, in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, where the mercury shot up to a sizzling 50.3C.
"The whole of the UAE has been suffering from the heat cyclones coming from the Empty Quarter, under the low atmospheric pressure," said a forecaster at the UAE Met Department.
"We expect the daytime temperature will range between 44 to 48C, dropping down to between 28C and 32C at night time."
When temperatures were at their hottest in Dubai yesterday, the humidity was just eight per cent, so the overall comfort index a measure of how bearable it is to spend time outside only reached four, which represents "uncomfortable" conditions.
The previous evening, the index climbed to eight classed as "extremely uncomfortable" because although the temperature was lower at 35C, humidity was a sweltering 80 per cent.
In Liwa, burning hot winds contributed to the very high temperatures, which according to resident Abdullah Mohammad, made life very difficult.
"The temperature has been very high here for the last several days," he said.
In Ruwais in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, residents reported dusty winds with the temperatures rising above normal levels for this time of year.
Similar conditions were also reported from Mirfa and Tarif, with residents saying the winds were extremely hot and difficult to cope with.
"It was very hot with dry and dusty winds blowing from the south until noon," one resident said.
Clive Stevens, duty forecaster at Dubai International Airport, said the weather would remain extremely hot for the coming days.
He predicted the maximum temperature today in Dubai would be in the mid- 40s while the minimum is unlikely to be below 30C.
"We have got the whole of August and the whole of September to live through it won't be until early October when people begin to notice some relief," he said.
Published: 2/8/2005, 08:27 (UAE)
Dubai swelters as thermometers record hottest day in six years
By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter and Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief
Dubai/Al Ain: Thermometers recorded their hottest day for six years in Dubai yesterday. Elsewhere in the UAE, the mercury climbed above 50C.
The sweltering heat was, however, accompanied by low humidity so going outside at peak hours was more bearable than during the evening.
Forecasters warned residents they will have to cope with another two months of scorching heat before noticing a downturn in temperatures.
Meteorologists recorded a temperature of 47.3C at Dubai International Airport yesterday, the hottest day since August 1999, when a figure of 47.5C was reached.
It was hotter still in Sharjah, where the forecasters' thermometer read 48.2C, and Al Ain, which recorded a similar maximum.
Hottest of the lot was Liwa city, in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, where the mercury shot up to a sizzling 50.3C.
"The whole of the UAE has been suffering from the heat cyclones coming from the Empty Quarter, under the low atmospheric pressure," said a forecaster at the UAE Met Department.
"We expect the daytime temperature will range between 44 to 48C, dropping down to between 28C and 32C at night time."
When temperatures were at their hottest in Dubai yesterday, the humidity was just eight per cent, so the overall comfort index a measure of how bearable it is to spend time outside only reached four, which represents "uncomfortable" conditions.
The previous evening, the index climbed to eight classed as "extremely uncomfortable" because although the temperature was lower at 35C, humidity was a sweltering 80 per cent.
In Liwa, burning hot winds contributed to the very high temperatures, which according to resident Abdullah Mohammad, made life very difficult.
"The temperature has been very high here for the last several days," he said.
In Ruwais in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, residents reported dusty winds with the temperatures rising above normal levels for this time of year.
Similar conditions were also reported from Mirfa and Tarif, with residents saying the winds were extremely hot and difficult to cope with.
"It was very hot with dry and dusty winds blowing from the south until noon," one resident said.
Clive Stevens, duty forecaster at Dubai International Airport, said the weather would remain extremely hot for the coming days.
He predicted the maximum temperature today in Dubai would be in the mid- 40s while the minimum is unlikely to be below 30C.
"We have got the whole of August and the whole of September to live through it won't be until early October when people begin to notice some relief," he said.
you have been warned.
:scared:
