Cloud cover reduces over Dubai on May 2.
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Dubai: After heavy rains throughout the UAE on Thursday early morning, the Sun is out and the clouds are slowly moving far from the seaside cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, towards Oman.
The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has actually reduced the amber alert to yellow, revealing that the cloud cover over the nation has actually decreased considerably.
According to the NCM site, which reveals the heatmap of clouds over the nation, some parts of Abu Dhabi and Dubai will continue to see partially overcast skies and light showers on Thursday afternoon.
Some internal parts of the nation and locations lying in the east and south of UAE, consisting of Hatta, Fujairah and Al Ain, continue to see overcast skies with an opportunity of moderate to heavy rains, according to the video cameras positioned at the weather condition stations in these places.
According to the Met Office, the unsteady weather was because of an “extension of surface area low pressure from the Red Sea and damp south-easterly winds”, which triggered storm cloud to move from Saudi Arabia towards the UAE.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms struck Abu Dhabi and Dubai early on Thursday early morning. Dubai citizens awakened to strong winds, thunder and lightning at around 3am, earlier than anticipated in the weather report.
While the intensitiy of rain reduced around 4.30 am, the scenario magnified once again around 8am, with heavy rainstorms taped throughout the whole nation, till about 10am.
The strength of rains reduced once again by 10.30 am, with light spread showers continuing throughout the nation till 1.30 pm.
Clear to partially cloudy skies are anticipated on Friday and Saturday, with some possibility of rains in the eastern and southern parts of the nation, according to the NCM.