But, this time, UAE residents were not wrong.
And that's thanks to a high-pressure system building over Siberia. The result: A "cold mass" coming from the northeast into the Arabian peninsula.
'Coldest January we have ever seen': -2°C
It is, in fact, colder than usual. "While it is too early to conclude whether we are experiencing the coldest winter in the UAE, right now, it is certainly the coldest January we have ever seen," a National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) official told
Gulf News. Temperatures dipped to a record of -2 °C for the first time in January this year. "Cold weather is expected to continue till February.”