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The word hot is generally created to fit Dubai weather. Located between 22 and 26 degrees north, Dubai lies within a sub-region of the northern desert belt, characterized by scanty and erratic rainfall, and high levels for temperature,humidity, and sunshine.
Summer (from June to September) temperatures are in the mid-40s, and soar higher the further inland. Even the temperature of the sea can reach 37 degrees Celcius. Winter sunshine averages eight hours per day, while the summerfigure reaches as high as eleven hours a day.
Despite this apparently stable climatic picture, the weather in Dubai does show a remarkable degree of local variability, throwing up thunder storms, fog, gale force winds, sand storms and, of course, rain. Dubai weather witness rainfall(roughly 8 cm/80 mm) per year generally during the winter season from November to April(from 25 to 35 degree Celcius and falling to as low as 9 degree Celcius) at night.
Less frequent rainfall occurs in isolated summer showers, carried into the area by south-westerly monsoons, and mostly at the eastern edge of the great Rub al Khali, along the borders between Abu Dhabi. Dubai weather also witness different types of winds blowing across the desert stems. The main period of storms is Al-Barih al-owd, while the minor storm period is called Al-Barih al-sagheer. The first major Shamal(mild north-westerly breeze) occurring around May 25th is the Al-Haffar, or the driller since it drills huge depressions in the desert dunes. The second, arriving in early June, coincides with the dawn star, Thorayya (Pleiades) and is therefore named Barih Thorayya.Near the end of June, the last shamal arrives, known as the Al-Dabaran.
Evenings are not so cool, coastal towns do have the advantage of pleasantly refreshing sea-breezes. Mountainous regions are also cooler and less humid. Dubai weather forecast can be concluded featuring a sub-tropical, arid climate with infrequent and irregular, rain falling mainly in winter.
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