5 Days of Rain and Fog Ahead as Winds Touch 50km/h Across UAE
Coastal, inland, and mountainous areas across the Emirates are in for five straight days of shifting weather, with convective clouds bringing chances of scattered rain, thick overnight fog, and strong winds through Wednesday, October 28.
The National Centre of Meteorology has issued a week-ahead forecast tracking an unstable atmospheric stretch driven by an extension of a surface low-pressure system alongside a weak upper-air low-pressure system.
Starting Saturday afternoon, convective cloud formations over eastern and western zones are expected to trigger rainfall alongside a drop in temperatures. Daytime highs on Saturday will range between 33°C and 37°C along the coast and islands, 35°C to 39°C inland, and 26°C to 32°C in the mountains. Winds will kick up to 35km/h along the coast, 40km/h inland, and 45km/h across mountain ridges, with overnight humidity setting up conditions for fog and mist into Sunday morning.
The pattern continues into Sunday, October 25, as southeasterly winds shift northwesterly at speeds up to 40km/h, carrying cloud cover and rain chances primarily across northern and eastern regions.
Conditions sharpen on Monday, October 26, and Tuesday, October 27, when wind gusts associated with cloud formations are projected to reach 50km/h. These fresh-to-strong gusts bring a distinct risk of blowing dust across exposed inland routes, paired with recurring night-time humidity that could drop visibility across coastal stretches through the morning hours.
By Wednesday, October 28, convective clouds will remain anchored over northern and eastern areas, maintaining a risk of rain while southeasterly to northeasterly winds continue peaking near 50km/h. Overnight humidity will stretch into Thursday morning, concentrating mostly over western coastal and inland communities.
Sea conditions across the five-day window will remain slight to moderate in the Arabian Gulf and slight in the Oman Sea.
The five-day weather pattern remains anchored by the low-pressure system moving across the country through midweek.
