VIDEO: Fog reduces visibility across UAE, motorists urged to exercise caution - GulfToday

VIDEO: Fog reduces visibility across UAE, motorists urged to exercise caution

  • 13 Feb 2021
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A residential area in Abu Dhabi is completely engulfed in fog.

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

Fog blanketed some of the interior areas of the UAE on Saturday morning, and lasted for several hours.

It started at midnight and continued until 9am, due to a surface air depression with a high air extension in the upper atmosphere.

Fog started to form on the Abu Dhabi - Dubai road “Ghantoot - Saih Sedira” and on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Road.

Intermittent fog started to form on Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street in Abu Dhabi, on Al Nouf towards the port in the Al Dhafra area, on Al Dhafra military airport, on Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, on Abu Dhabi International Airport, on Al Bateen Airport, on Dubai International Airport, on Sharjah International Airport, on Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Road “Ras Al Khaimah - Umm Al Quwain”, on Al Qudra Street, on Jebel Ali-Lehbab, and on Sheikh Zayed Bin Hamdan Street in Dubai.

The lowest temperature recorded over the country was at 7.7°C, at 7am in Al Rakhna, Al Ain.

 

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