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Thick fog hits road traffic, flights
Dense fog covers .
Traffic chief warns about distance, speeding, after deadly 36-car pile-up
Pile-up caused by drivers who failed to leave safe distances on roads during high density fog
Published:
00:00 October 19, 2011
ABU DHABI: Dense fog continued to wreak havoc on traffic movement on roads across the Emirates.
Meanwhile, 35 cars were involved in a major car-pile up on the Dubai bypass near Academic City on Tuesday morning.
Eleven people, according to Dubai Police sources, were injured, five seriously, in the mishap.
Also, the police said there were 418 traffic-related emergency calls between 5am and 8am.
Fog covered different parts of the country on Tuesday morning, including Menhad area on Abu Dhabi-Al Ain Road, where horizontal visibility dropped to 50 metres.
Meanwhile, fog formation in Jebel area and all areas in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, led to visibility declining to 100 metres. Also Al Hamrah and Zafra areas experienced low level of horizontal visibility for 1,200 metres.
Dubai and Sharjah were not spared the inclement weather as medium to heavy fog blanketed different areas of the two emirates, leading horizontal visibility to drop to 200 metres as it continued to escalate for 6 hours from 3am till it gradually diminished by 9am, according to the National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology.
Flights hit
Due to the fog formation on Tuesday morning, the competent authorities at the Dubai International Airport had to divert flights to neighboring airports, in case of those planes, which were not fully equipped to land in such circumstances. Meanwhile, the Dubai airport also received two flights that were diverted from other airports.
Official sources form Fly Emirates, confirmed that none of their flights were diverted on Tuesday, but only some flights delayed for some time because of the fog.
Met forecast
Sources at the centre predicted that fog formation would continue on Wednesday in different areas in the country, particularly the external roads, where level of horizontal visibility would be low. Sources at the centre called road users to take the required measures and adhere to the traffic instruction during such circumstances to ensure public safety.
Weather on Wednesday is expected to be hot during daytime, cool by night and partially cloudy at times on some eastern areas, sources said. The winds will be light to moderate and brisk at times in the afternoon, they added. Sea is expected to be calm, while relative humidity is expected to increase, sources added. The maximum temperature on Wednesday are expected to reach 36°C in Al Ain, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Ajman, 35°C in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and 34°C in Dubai and Fujairah.
In an accident, two vehicles were completely charred on a bypass road near the Al Ain exit, heading to Dubai.
A car hit a pickup and both vehicles caught fire.
News.
~MaY Allah swt help,protect and guide all muslim~AMin!
Thank you for reading.
Take care!
~Wassalam
greeting!
Thick fog hits road traffic, flights
Dense fog covers .
Traffic chief warns about distance, speeding, after deadly 36-car pile-up
Pile-up caused by drivers who failed to leave safe distances on roads during high density fog
Published:
00:00 October 19, 2011
ABU DHABI: Dense fog continued to wreak havoc on traffic movement on roads across the Emirates.
Meanwhile, 35 cars were involved in a major car-pile up on the Dubai bypass near Academic City on Tuesday morning.
Eleven people, according to Dubai Police sources, were injured, five seriously, in the mishap.
Also, the police said there were 418 traffic-related emergency calls between 5am and 8am.
Fog covered different parts of the country on Tuesday morning, including Menhad area on Abu Dhabi-Al Ain Road, where horizontal visibility dropped to 50 metres.
Meanwhile, fog formation in Jebel area and all areas in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, led to visibility declining to 100 metres. Also Al Hamrah and Zafra areas experienced low level of horizontal visibility for 1,200 metres.
Dubai and Sharjah were not spared the inclement weather as medium to heavy fog blanketed different areas of the two emirates, leading horizontal visibility to drop to 200 metres as it continued to escalate for 6 hours from 3am till it gradually diminished by 9am, according to the National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology.
Flights hit
Due to the fog formation on Tuesday morning, the competent authorities at the Dubai International Airport had to divert flights to neighboring airports, in case of those planes, which were not fully equipped to land in such circumstances. Meanwhile, the Dubai airport also received two flights that were diverted from other airports.
Official sources form Fly Emirates, confirmed that none of their flights were diverted on Tuesday, but only some flights delayed for some time because of the fog.
Met forecast
Sources at the centre predicted that fog formation would continue on Wednesday in different areas in the country, particularly the external roads, where level of horizontal visibility would be low. Sources at the centre called road users to take the required measures and adhere to the traffic instruction during such circumstances to ensure public safety.
Weather on Wednesday is expected to be hot during daytime, cool by night and partially cloudy at times on some eastern areas, sources said. The winds will be light to moderate and brisk at times in the afternoon, they added. Sea is expected to be calm, while relative humidity is expected to increase, sources added. The maximum temperature on Wednesday are expected to reach 36°C in Al Ain, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Ajman, 35°C in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and 34°C in Dubai and Fujairah.
In an accident, two vehicles were completely charred on a bypass road near the Al Ain exit, heading to Dubai.
A car hit a pickup and both vehicles caught fire.
News.
~MaY Allah swt help,protect and guide all muslim~AMin!
Thank you for reading.
Take care!
~Wassalam