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On Friday and Saturday an amber warning predicts that snow will become persistent and heavy - affecting Central, Tayside and Fife, Grampian, the Highlands and Eilean Siar, and Strathclyde. Met Office deputy chief meteorologist, Mark Sidaway, said: “Into the weekend snow will continue across much of Scotland, and is likely to increasingly fall to low levels before beginning to move south into northern and eastern England. “We are likely to see some very large accumulations across higher parts of Scotland especially, with strong winds leading to significant drifting and blizzard conditions at times.” This could cause disruptions to travel and utilities meaning that some communities may be cut off for days.
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.”