Kuwait to experience unstable weather on Thursday

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KUWAIT CITY, March 2: The Meteorologists department stated that the country is experiencing  instability in weather conditions starting from  Thursday morning, as southerly winds with speeds exceeding 60 kilometers per hour will be active. The winds will cause dust with visibility decreasing to less than 1000 meters in some areas leading to sea waves rising to seven feet. By Friday evening things will get back to normal.

Meanwhile Kuwait saw development after its independence on all levels, the scientific field in the country had a prominent boost to follow up on the international standards, especially in the weather forecast field. Weather forecast plays a big role in the daily lives of people, making the Kuwait Meteorological Department of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation one of the most important bodies in the country, supervisor of telecommunication and information in the department, Engineer Salah Al-Ansari told KUNA on Wednesday.

The department was established before Kuwait’s independence in 1953. The first meteorological station was launched in July of the same year in Shuwaikh, followed by another in Al-Omariya the year after and Kuwait Airport’s station in 1957, said Al-Ansari. The department’s contact with the audience was through weather forecast in the radio, until 1972 when the first TV weather forecast came out, he noted. Meanwhile, he underlined the important information the department provides to Kuwait Airport to facilitate flights movement, as well as to other sectors like traffic, coast guard, media and environmental and agricultural bodies.

As part of its efforts to follow the international development in the forecast field, the department executed a big project in 2004, that involved setting 27 weather stations spread across lands, islands and the sea, he said. This made weather forecast available to everyone through mobile phones and the department’s website, Al-Ansari added. The department is set to execute a second generation automatic stations project, adding eight to ten more stations to the country, with a totally new forecasting system.(KUNA)

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