Latest forecasts from the World Meteorological Organization indicated that there was an 80 per cent likelihood that the world will see the annual average global temperature temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of the next five years, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns. “WMO is sounding the alarm that…
File photo It is hot in different cities of Saudi Arabia, while Makkah has recorded the highest temperature of 44 degrees Celsius. According to the Saudi Meteorological Department, the temperature has been recorded at 43 degrees in Jeddah, Al-Saman, Al-Ahsa, Hafar al-Batin and Al-Dhana. While the temperature was recorded at 40 degrees in Medina, Riyadh,…
El Niño and La Niña are natural phenomena which WMO describes as “major drivers of the Earth’s climate system”. After a three-year La Niña spell, which is associated with ocean cooling, the world faces an 80 per cent chance of an El Niño event developing between July and September. Tell-tale signs are a warming of…
File photo The lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States, the mercury dropped to minus 78 degrees Celsius in the state of New Hampshire. Canada and America are facing the worst snow storm, bone-chilling cold and strong winds have made the weather coldest. In the US state of New Hampshire, the mercury went as…
The weather is likely to be the coldest in the UAE on January 31, Photo: File Abu Dhabi: After three days of incessant rains in the UAE, the temperature dropped to the lowest level while some areas even recorded negative. According to the National Center of Meteorology of the United Arab Emirates, the temperature dropped…
