Dubai moved to position 23 from 21 last year, retaining its position as the most expensive city in the Middle East. Pawan Singh / The National
Dubai moved to position 23 from 21 last year, retaining its position as the most expensive city in the Middle East. Pawan Singh / The National
Dubai moved to position 23 from 21 last year, retaining its position as the most expensive city in the Middle East. Pawan Singh / The National
Dubai moved to position 23 from 21 last year, retaining its position as the most expensive city in the Middle East. Pawan Singh / The National

UAE weather: Dubai and Abu Dhabi forecasts show temperatures in low 30s


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Dubai and Abu Dhabi should expect high temperatures in the low 30s tomorrow.

The National Centre of Meteorology has forecasted some areas of cloud but the weather will be mostly fair.

The wind is predicted to be moderate, with a chance of fog in coastal areas, particularly in the west of the country.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are expected to experience humidity levels at the upper limit of 85 and 90 per cent respectively. Forecasts are for humidity particularly overnight on Sunday, into Monday morning.

In Dubai lows of 21°C and highs of 31°C have been predicted. In Abu Dhabi temperatures of 20°C to 30°C should be expected.

In the morning the sea in the Arabian Gulf will be moderate, with predictions of similar but conditions in the Oman Sea.

Moving into Monday, across the country some clouds are expected along with mostly fair weather once again. Temperatures will increase gradually with light to moderate northeasterly to southeasterly winds.

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It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.

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The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.

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