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Eid Al Adha: Rainfall expected in parts of UAE over long weekend
Residents in the UAE are preparing to usher in Eid Al Adha, and the question on everyone's mind is whether it will rain over the weekend.
The country is experiencing hot and humid conditions before the summer solstice on June 21. And residents are hoping for a brief respite from the sweltering heat.
holiday weekend.
The Eid Al Adha break is from Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 8 and the UAE's weather department — the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) — has forecast for rain on June 6, 7 and 8.
June 6
The NCM said there it will be fair to partly cloudy and low clouds will appear northward and eastward with a probability of light rainfall on Friday, June 6.
June 7
There is rainfall predicted on Saturday, June 7 with the met department saying that it will be fair to cloudy at times, with a chance of some convective cloud formation associated with rainfall eastward and northward.
June 8
Sunday, June 8, will could also see some rainfall across the country with the NCM saying there is a chance of some convective cloud formation associated with rainfall eastward and northward.