UAE: New Year's Eve shouldn't see any rain, according to a weather expert

 

When you go out to celebrate the New Year on Saturday, you might not need to pack an umbrella or a raincoat.

Dr Ahmed Habib, a meteorology expert from the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), told Khaleej Times that Saturday's weather is not expected to be wet but will instead be partly cloudy, with lows of 8°C or 9°C in the interior of the nation and 15°C to 17°C in the coastal regions. The daytime maximum is predicted to range between 23°C and 26°C.

He predicted that the mild to moderate rain would last through today and tomorrow before ending by Thursday night. The forecast for Friday and Saturday calls for no rain, a moderate daytime temperature, and a little chilly evening.

In order to boost rainfall, Dr Habib said that routine cloud seeding occurs when there are clouds that are already full of rain.

The NCM stated in a report earlier this week that the country was "being affected by an extension of a southwest-bound surface low-pressure system, along with an extension of a westerly upper air low pressure and a jet stream, with a movement of different clouds forming from the west towards the country in the form of successive waves."