May, June, July and August – Qatar’s sweltering summer isn’t over yet. According to the meteorology department, residents should expect a few more months of miserable weather before cooler winter temperatures kick in.
If this summer felt particularly hot to you, that’s because it has been. In a statement this week, the MET said maximum temperatures in July hit 48.2C (119F) in Doha – some 6C higher than what Qatar usually sees during that month.
Outside the capital, temperatures exceeded 50C (122F), which was 7.4C higher than the average, the MET said.
El Niño
Commenting on the unusually hot weather the country has seen this summer, the MET blamed global warming and El Niño, a climate pattern that describes changes in trade winds across the Pacific Ocean.
Those winds accompany increases in sea temperature, which can lead to extreme weather conditions across the globe.
The MET continued:
“The rise in temperature will remain particularly in the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf for the next couple of months (up to the month of October) as well as the increase in the relative humidity…
Average humidity levels in August hover around 70 percent, but are expected to be higher this month, the MET added, attributing the increase to “unusual light surface wind and slack pressure gradient and sea breeze for long time during the day.”
Thoughts?
Sounds perfect for a summer World Cup đŸ™‚
It’s the “It-is hot-in-Doha” news again
global warming = doha in a few decades will not be viable
Good point!
oh for goodness sake really … no other news to report?
New day, new story
This one and the “X things to do in Qatar this weekend” are apparently automated articles. Shabina just changes some lines and updates the dates and it is done. In 10 minutes she has already produced two articles.
Jokes aside, yes DN is becoming a tad boring. The first article of the day is posted after 10am and then most of the articles these days are not really news. Either they need more staff or they need to review their editorial line. Something is not working fine in the team unfortunately đŸ™‚
It’s basically a Google News alert about “qatar” tag. Few repeated sentences here and there to spice the comments up and increase traffic. There you go a Doha News article.
It is even easier than that these days. You take an article from the Peninsula or Gulf Times and you summarize it. I can bet there is at least 5 or 6 articles like that every week if not more. It is quite sad because I still view DN as the best news source in town but I am afraid if they continue this way we will have to find another source. I have noticed ILQ is now posting few articles a day DohaNews-style, so I will give them a try for a week and see.
or even qatarliving has content to meet this level of journalism
In other breaking news, a dog bit a man today.