Cloudy and windy conditions at Al Sufouh beach in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National
Cloudy and windy conditions at Al Sufouh beach in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National
Cloudy and windy conditions at Al Sufouh beach in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National
Cloudy and windy conditions at Al Sufouh beach in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National

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UAE weather: Foggy and cloudy conditions to persist for a week

Temperatures to stay low across the country

The National

January 31, 2022

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The sky across the UAE this week will be overcast, and dusty conditions are forecast for a few days.

Temperatures will rise over the next two days and fall by midweek, the National Centre of Meteorology said.

Mist will affect coastal areas on Monday and Tuesday, with winds picking up by the middle of the week.

The sea will turn rough from Wednesday, with winds whipping up dust and sand in parts of the country.

North westerly winds at sea will reach speeds of between 15 and 40 kilometres an hour.

Humid conditions are expected in the first half of the week.

The temperatures will remain low towards the end of the week, dipping down to 8°C inland and on the mountains.

Along the coast, temperatures will fall to 14°C from a high of 23°C.

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The idea of pound parity now seems less far-fetched as the risk grows that Britain may split away from the European Union without a deal.

Rupert Harrison, a fund manager at BlackRock, sees the risk of it falling to trade level with the dollar on a no-deal Brexit. The view echoes Morgan Stanley’s recent forecast that the currency can plunge toward $1 (Dh3.67) on such an outcome. That isn’t the majority view yet – a Bloomberg survey this month estimated the pound will slide to $1.10 should the UK exit the bloc without an agreement.

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that Britain will leave the EU on the October 31 deadline with or without an agreement, fuelling concern the nation is headed for a disorderly departure and fanning pessimism toward the pound. Sterling has fallen more than 7 per cent in the past three months, the worst performance among major developed-market currencies.

“The pound is at a much lower level now but I still think a no-deal exit would lead to significant volatility and we could be testing parity on a really bad outcome,” said Mr Harrison, who manages more than $10 billion in assets at BlackRock. “We will see this game of chicken continue through August and that’s likely negative for sterling,” he said about the deadlocked Brexit talks.

The pound fell 0.8 per cent to $1.2033 on Friday, its weakest closing level since the 1980s, after a report on the second quarter showed the UK economy shrank for the first time in six years. The data means it is likely the Bank of England will cut interest rates, according to Mizuho Bank.

The BOE said in November that the currency could fall even below $1 in an analysis on possible worst-case Brexit scenarios. Options-based calculations showed around a 6.4 per cent chance of pound-dollar parity in the next one year, markedly higher than 0.2 per cent in early March when prospects of a no-deal outcome were seemingly off the table.

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