UAE weather: Temperatures to fall and winds to pick up

Lows down to 12°C in some areas of the country

A life guard on the Corniche Beach in Abu Dhabi. It was 27°C on the Corniche at 9am this morning. Sammy Dallal / The National
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There will be slight fall in temperature today, according to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology.

It will also be partly cloudy with the amount of cloud expected to increase over some areas.

Moderate to fresh winds in general are expected over exposed areas, and they will becoming stronger at times and causing blow dust.

The humidity is set to remain, and as usual will increase during the night and early morning hours, with the probability of mist formation over some areas.

The sea will become very rough over the Arabian Gulf and Oman Sea in the afternoon, so be careful. The NCMS also alerted of fresh to strong north-westerly winds.

The lowest recorded temperature today was 12.3°C on Jais Mountain at 5.45am, while 14.2°C  was recorded on Mebreh Mountain at 5am. In Hamim and Al Jazeera BG it was 16.6°C at 4.30am and 5am repectively, while in Damtha it was 15.3°C at 6:45am.

The temperature at 9am on the Abu Dhabi Corniche was 27.2°C.