Rains to continue till Tuesday

Formation and flow of clouds continued on the coasts of the Sea of Oman and parts of the Al Hajar Mountains on Monday predicting more rain.

Continued activity and intense clouds brought scattered rain on the coasts of the Sea of Oman — the governorates of South Al Sharqiyah, Muscat, South and North Al Batinah and parts of the governorates of Musandam, Al Buraimi, Al Dakhiliyah and Al Dhahirah.

Mostly there will be clear sky over the rest of the governorates. There are chances of late night to early morning low level clouds or fog patches over parts of South Al Sharqiyah and al Wusta Governorates.

Heavy rains were experienced across many parts of the Muscat Governorate on Sunday night with Muscat International Airport recording 9.6 mm, Muscat 1.4 mm and Wadi al Mawaal, South al Batinah recorded 3.2 mm taking many by surprise.

Muttrah and Al Ghubra faced waterlogging in certain areas, especially impacting parking areas.

According to weather forecaster at Oman Meteorology at Civil Aviation Authority, Ibrahim al Brashadi, more rains were expected on Monday in Musandam, coastal area of the Arabian Sea, North and South al Batinah, Dakhiliyah and Muscat at night as well as Tuesday morning. Isolated rains are expected in South Al Sharqiyah.

Active northwest winds in parts of the desert areas of Al Dhahira, Al Wusta and Dhofar May raise dust and affect the level of horizontal visibility.

Musandam Coast is expected to have wave height of 2 meters with relative humidity ranging between 20 to 75%, Oman Sea is expected to be moderate with a wave height of 2.5 meters and humidity ranging between 35 to 80% and the Arabian Sea is moderate with 2.0 meters with humidity ranging between 15 to 80%.

The lowest temperature was recorded in Saiq at 5.4 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature was recorded in Al Amerat topping at 30 degrees Celsius.

Over most of the sultanate of Oman winds will be northwesterly to northerly moderate to fresh. The weather forecast for Tuesday stated that partly cloudy skies with chances of isolated rain are expected over Musandam Governorate and parts of the Oman sea and south al Sharqiya coast whereas mainly clear skies are expected over the rest of the governorates with chance of late night to early morning low level clouds or fog patches over parts of South al Sharqiya and al Wusta Governorates.