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United Arab Emirates

The UAE is likely not as famous as it's components. Perhaps you have heard of Dubai or Abu Dhabi, two of the emirates included in this union, which lies on the southern side of the Persian Gulf, between Qatar and Oman. As you could imagine, most of the country is extremely arid. Even where it isn't it rarely rains. Along the shores of the Persian Gulf in those two more famous cities and other coastal areas, the humidity can be oppressive, owing to the triple digit temperatures and the access to the moisture of the Persian Gulf. Tropical systems are rare and often sheared apart by the mountains of the Oman Peninsula before they make their way into the the area. When they do, they provide more ran than many parts of the country typically seen in decades.
The United Arab Emirates has a National Center for Meteorology and Seismology. The Center has a very nicely animated home page. Note the drips of water running down the screen. Temperatures are running about 40 degrees over there, as you can see, with quite a bit of dust. Of course, that's 40 degrees Celsius, or about 105 degrees. The site has everything you might need, from radar to satellite. The aviation weather button at the bottom of the screen takes you to some encoded data for airports not only in the UAE but some other nearby airports in Oman and Qatar. The nation is extremely affluent and home to many foreigners, so their site is decidedly well constructed and easy to navigate for the casual outsider such as ourselves.

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