Foggy mornings are quite normal in the UAE during late September, October, and possibly early November. Most likely places for fog are interior areas, inland areas of coastal cities epsecially the highways between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Immediate coastlines tend to be less foggy. Humid and calm nights can be an indicator of a foggy morning. As overnights temperatures get slightly cooler, and dew points still high, the chance of air parcels condensing becomes higher during this time of the year.
Or a hot start of autumn? Astrologists prefer to consider the period around Sep 21-23 as the start of autumn as sun rays shine directly on the equator, giving way to equal days and night, and Dec 21-23 marking the start of winter. Due to temperature lag of earth, meteorologist prefer to designate the start of September as the start of autumn, and the start of December marking the begining of Autumn. Whichever you take it, days are getting progressively shorter with less heat intake by earth. You should start noticing sunsets becoming earlier and later sunrises. Of course that applies [ Read More ]
An upper low is expected to move accross eastern Mediterranean sea during the next few days. The majority of the impact of showers and thunderstorms is likely to be over Turkey, marking the first wet spill after a long dry summer. The low is also expected to bring some showers to coastal Lebanon and possibly coastal Syria, with noticable temperature decreases especially over much some non-coastal areas of the Arabian Mediterranean countires . Such a weather change can be argued to be 3 weeks earlier than normal.
The usual question that residents ask every year. Some feel that summers are getting hotter. Let’s take a look at some numbers. The charts below show average day-time high temperatures for June and July for the years 2000-2011, recorded at Dubai Airport. Such temperatures might not be representative of other cities especially ones that are not coastal. Dubai city is a coastal city that usually gets affected by a sea breeze that tends to moderate day-time temperatures. Moreover, humidity plays a great role in determining how hot it feels. One clear observation is that June 2011 ranks as the third hottest June for the [ Read More ]
