{"id":16073,"date":"2020-01-06T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=16073"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:57:19","slug":"weather-alert-rain-hits-uae-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/01\/06\/weather-alert-rain-hits-uae-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather alert: Rain hits UAE today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It will be cloudy to partly cloudy with a chance of rainfall at day time especially over the northern and eastern areas with a notable decrease in temperature, according to the NCM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind: Moderate to fresh Northwesterly winds and strong at times especially over the sea, causing blowing dust and sand, with speed 25 &#8211; 35  reaching 55kmph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sea: rough to very rough in the Arabian Gulf and rough in Oman Sea.<br><br>According to the NCM, light rains were reported over Dubai, Sharjah, Al Ain, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain early in the morning.<br><br>(RTA) have urged motorists to drive safely during the rainy conditions and  also instructed to maintain a safe following distance and avoid applying brakes suddenly, to prevent the risk of skidding when roads are slippery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCM had also warned sea-goers in Arabian Gulf against potential convective clouds formations associated with rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To ensure your safety when driving in rainy weather, follow these tips. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/safety?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#safety<\/a> is our priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mmh02DVNiG\">pic.twitter.com\/Mmh02DVNiG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RTA (@rta_dubai) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rta_dubai\/status\/1214031870427566080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be cloudy to partly cloudy with a chance of rainfall at day time especially over the northern and eastern areas with a notable decrease in temperature, according to the NCM Wind: Moderate to fresh Northwesterly winds and strong at times especially over the sea, causing blowing dust and sand, with speed 25 &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16075,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions\/16075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}