Saturday 20 / April / 2024
Muscat: While Muscat has been gripped by a sweltering heat wave, residents of Sarfait in Salalah are enjoying cool weather.
The current temperature recorded by the Oman Meteorology Department in Salalah is 30 degree Celsius.
“People in Salalah have reported cooler temperatures, and even fog. Temperatures in the north hit 50 degrees yesterday,” according to weathermen.
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It feels like the Khareef season,” Bader Ali Al Baddaei, the administrator of www.rthmc.com, a local web-based forum that discusses weather in Oman, told the Times of Oman.
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Basil Peter, an official at the Salalah Port, said they are blessed to have such a pleasant climate. “On Sunday evening, we experienced a drizzle in Salalah,” Peter said, adding that the temperature has been dipping every day.
According to the Oman Meteorology Department’s forecast for Tuesday, skies along the coastal areas of Dhofar will be cloudy, with a chance of intermittent drizzles.
On Sunday in Muscat the temperature hovered around 46 to 47, while the temperature in Suwaiq was recorded at 50 degree Celsius, in many other places it hovered around 49 degree Celsius.
Siddique Hassan, a businessman from Suwaiq, said it had been unbearably hot and nearby areas and workers were seen struggling with the situation.
“Workers outside were struggling a lot. Even at around 5pm, it was like being in an oven,” Hassan added.
According to global meteorologists, temperatures have risen on average around 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial average—a threshold that’s being considered by international negotiators as a new goal for limiting warming.
While an exceptionally strong El Niño weather phenomenon has provided a boost to temperatures in recent months, the primary driver has been the heat that has built up due to decades of unabated greenhouse gas emissions.
