UAE Weather: Is this winter really the coldest one yet?

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UAE residents all over town are convinced that this has been a colder winter than usual. So we ask the experts: "Is this the coldest winter yet?"  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ov5oLy   Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #weather #UAEnews #winter

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00:00There is a common misconception to the rest of the world that the UAE is hot all year

00:05round.

00:06Don't get us wrong, the UAE is generally a warm and balmy destination with perfect

00:12beach weather.

00:15But for a few weeks during the winter months, it gets quite cold.

00:21Bringing icy rains and the occasional light blankets of snow, some of these winters have

00:26remained lodged in the cultural memory.

00:30One of these memories took place last year this exact week, as UAE residents enjoyed

00:35snow in Jebel Jais.

00:38Another momentous weather day was the infamous heavy downpour of November 2018, which caused

00:44the roads to flood and the schools to close down.

00:49And who can forget the hailstorm reported in Ras Al Khaimah in November 2019 as the

00:54country underwent a bout of unstable weather.

00:59However, none of these times were the coldest winter in the UAE.

01:06Statistics by the UAE's National Center of Meteorology confirmed that the lowest drop

01:11in temperature was in Jebel Jais circa February 2017, where the temperature dropped to minus

01:175.7 degrees Celsius.

01:21For more information about the UAE's weather, log on to gulfnews.com.

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