Emirates Meteorology Portal

While foggy conditions could continue until Thursday morning, winds could pick up speed later on Thursday, and becoming breezy to windy by Friday. Northwesterly winds will blow at fresh speeds on Friday, putting an end to foggy nights over the last few days. While winds could reach 40 Km/hr over coastal cities, the Arabian Gulf Sea will become very rough due to  higher wind speeds offshore. Temperatures should go down slightly, and will be between 32-35 during the day starting on Saturday. Temperatures are dropping slightly as days are getting shorter. With November just around the corner, milder air is not  [ Read More ]

After a period of unstable weather over parts of mountainous UAE and Oman, and milder weather over the Arabian Peninsula in general, a return to warmer weather is expected. A stagnant high pressure is expected to start building up, and might not fade away until at least Oct 20th. During this time, day-time temperatures will increase again. Although not as hot as September, temperatures could reach late 30s and possibly 40C in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Humid nights and foggy mornings are possible during the next 7 days. Elsewhere in the Meditonerranean, a few showers are possible on Saturday Oct  [ Read More ]

As the last few days brought interesting afternoon thundershowers to interior and mountainous UAE along with the eastern coast, the same is expected to continue on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday along the Hajar mountains of the UAE and Oman. The weak upper low over SW Asia, although the first this season, is expected to reduce the impact of the upper high that usually suppresses convective thunderstorms. There will also be scaterred showers and thunderstorms over eastern half of Iran and afghanistan, marking the first rain of the season. Later this week a high pressure takes over again over the Arabian Peninsuala as  [ 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.