Dubai residents are trying to cool off at night at Umm Suqeim beach while temperatures shat up above 50 degrees Celsius (112 Fahrenheit).
The United Arab Emirates violated its May temperature record for the second consecutive day, reaching 51.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday, at a touching distance from the highest temperature ever recorded in the country.
“The highest temperature recorded on the country today is 51.6 ° C in Sweihan (Al Ain) at 1:45 pm Local Time (0945 GMT),” said National Center of Meteorology in an article on X, at only 0.4 ° C of the global heat record in the Gulf country.
The Meteorology Office told AFP that the highest temperature ever recorded in water since the start of the documentation in 2003 had been reported at 52C on the island of Al Yasat in Abu Dhabi in 2010.
The Desert Nation, a world exporter of higher oil, lies in one of the hottest regions on the planet and which is particularly vulnerable to climate change.
The temperature in Sweihan – which is 97 km (60 miles) west of Abu Dhabi – and 50.4 ° C per day earlier in the Emirati capital exceeded the previous May record of 50.2 Celsius recorded in 2009, according to the Meteorology Office.
Saturday in Dubai, where high temperatures in the middle of 40 degrees Celsius were recorded, motorists complained of air conditioning in their cars which had trouble stifling the stifling heat, surprised that the phenomenon struck so early in the year.
In the streets, the inhabitants of Dubai were still on the move – some armed parasols – and the sellers selling water and local juice bars seemed to benefit from an increase in customers.
The United Arab Emirates, host of COP28 climatic talks in 2023, has just come out of an April record with an average daily top of 42.6 degrees Celsius.
Extremely hot days
Scientists have shown that recurring heat waves are a clear marker for global warming and that these heat waves should become more frequent, longer and more intense.
The extremely hot number of days has almost doubled worldwide in the past three decades.
The outdoor workers in the Arab states are faced with part of the highest exposure to thermal stress in the world, 83.6% suffering from excessive exposure to heat at work, according to a 2024 report from the International Labor Organization, a United Nations Agency.
The risks of a warming planet were last June, when more than 1,300 people died when the Hajj’s Muslim pilgrimage was produced in neighboring Saudi Arabia, according to an official count – most unauthorized pilgrims exposed to long periods outside.
According to a Greenpeace 2022 study, the Middle East is at high risk of rarity of water and food as well as serious waves of heat due to climate change.
The report, which has been focused on six countries, including water, revealed that the region warmed almost twice as quickly as the world average, which makes its food and “extremely vulnerable” food supplies to climate change.
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