DOHA: The weather is going to be windy and dusty today and tomorrow affecting visibility.
The Met Office has forecast fresh to strong winds accompanied with dust at times for today and tomorrow.
Horizontal visibility in the open areas and highways will be affected as a result.
Wind speed will be 12 to 20 knots an hour, at times even reaching up to 25 knots, the Met Office said in a special bulletin yesterday.
Offshore, the wind speed will be reaching between 15 and 30 knots an hour at places, leading to tumultuous sea with waves four to eight feet high.
The direction of the wind will be northwesterly. The windy and dusty weather will peak tomorrow, having been caused by a deepening of low Indian monsoon, said the forecast.
The wind will begin losing its sting from Thursday. A forecaster told this newspaper that maximum day temperature could soar up to 40 degrees Celsius today.
Tomorrow the mercury level is expected to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius, with humidity levels coming down slightly to 70 percent.
The weather was humid yesterday with the humidity level being 85 percent. It will be more or less the same today. Meanwhile, the daily forecast released by the Met office said the maximum temperature will be 40 degrees C in Abu Samra on Qatar-Saudi border. In Doha, it will be 38 degrees, while nightly temperature is likely to be 28 degrees. The Peninsula
