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Very Strange Weather in Qatar and Kuwait

As I was writing a post, I noticed – Holy Cow! It’s 113°F / 45°C in Doha. Checking Kuwait, Holy Moly, it’s 115°F / 46°C. That is Holy Smokes Hot, that is hot hot hot, right?

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Thirty seconds later, I look – and my little weatherunderground sticker says it’s “only” 106.9 °F / 41°C in Doha, and “only” 106.9°F / 41°C in Kuwait.

How amazing is that – the temperatures dropping so fast, in BOTH Kuwait and Doha, within seconds?

June 11, 2009 - Posted by | Bureaucracy, Cultural, Doha, ExPat Life, Health Issues, Kuwait, Living Conditions, Qatar, Social Issues, Statistics, Weather

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  1. Funny how my own readings here at 12:15 were 50!!!

    Q8Dutchie's avatar Comment by Q8Dutchie | June 11, 2009 | Reply

  2. it was around 43°C in Kuwait around 6.15… and it rained!
    rain in June! I`d like more of that! 😉

    http://somecontrast.com/2009/06/12/fw-raining-in-abdali/

    noura's avatar Comment by noura | June 12, 2009 | Reply

  3. Q8Dutchie – yeh, funny. It was amazingly hot here, too. 😦 I feel sorry for those who are laboring outside. It is brutal.

    Rain! Rain in Kuwait in June! Noura, that is amazing!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | June 13, 2009 | Reply

  4. It’s been raining yes… but the rain is composed of more dust than H2O!!

    Mohammad Abdullah's avatar Comment by Bu Yousef | June 13, 2009 | Reply

  5. Bu Yousef, one of the Q8 bloggers mentioned it was raining and like 43°C! That’s like a hot shower!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | June 14, 2009 | Reply

  6. Sorry for the late reply – a lot of catching up from my last vacation.

    1) Depending on how long your browser had been open it could be it was displaying the last information it had saved to cache and then detected a change in the information an refreshed the data and display.

    2) Or, if the temp was actually 50C as Q8Dutchie noted the Kuwait censors were hard at work – it is “illegal” for the temperature to go higher than 49C as the outside laborers are then prohibited from working. So the solution is the “official” temp is never reported higher than 49C. Of course, the government denies this completely.

    http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/human_rights.html
    “The law provides that all outdoor work stop when the temperature rises to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit); however, media sources alleged that the government falsified official readings to allow work to proceed. The Meteorological Division consistently denied these allegations. MOSAL enforced the ban on working during the hottest times of the day by doing site visits. In June MOSAL inspection teams visited 506 open work sites and discovered more than 530 persons working during the daytime.”

    bitjockey's avatar Comment by bitjockey | July 1, 2009 | Reply

  7. Wow. BitJockey, I thought that too, but it happens now and then and I discovered that what happens – at least on WeatherUnderground – is that sometimes a weather station doesn’t report in, like Kuwait or like Doha – and they will use Manama, Bahrain reporting instead. It’s when you see a sudden drop from 111°F to 98°F that I start getting suspicious, but when I saw it happen again, I noticed they were using Bahrain statistics . . .

    I see laborers out working in the middle of the worst heat of the day all the time. I cannot imagine how they manage. With the humidity, what was hot just feels a whole lot hotter. 😦

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | July 1, 2009 | Reply


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