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Sociable parents’ kids better at exams
Sociable parents’ kids better at exams
15 Mar 2008, 1150 hrs IST,PTI
LONDON: Here’s another reason to party – a new study has showed that children born to sociable parents are better at exams.
Researchers in Britain have found that parents who are involved in clubs such as political parties, voluntary groups or religious organisations are likely to have kids who succeed at school, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
According to the University of Sheffield study, children score better in reading, maths and vocabulary tests the more socially active their parents are.
“Children’s scores in reading, mathematics and vocabulary tests are positively associated with the extent of their parents’ formal social interaction. The results suggest lack of social interaction may have adverse intergenerational effects in terms of educational attainment.
“Children of parents who engage in relatively low levels of social interaction attain relatively low scores in reading, maths and vocabulary,” according to the study’s lead author Professor Sarah Brown.
Bring fine arts to front pages
‘Bring fine arts to front pages’
Ridiculing the importance accorded to page-three items in newspapers, a group of famous musicians today appealed to the print medium to bring fine arts to the front page.
“Bring the news of fine arts and artistes to the front page and take unpleasant things to the subsequent pages. We don’t want to read unpleasant things in the morning,” remarked eminent carnatic singer M Balamurali Krishna at a joint press conference here, addressed by the who’s who of the Indian music world.
The musicians, representing both Hindustani and carnatic music styles, have come together under the umbrella of the All India Musicians Group (AIMG) to preserve the art and support up-and-coming artistes and indigent (poor) musicians.
“I think the front page is reserved only for cricket,” commented renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain. Coming down heavily on the page-three culture, he said “now-a-days people first look only at page three where they get to read about persons whom they don’t know”.
But those persons were in the news just because they went to a party.”
Stressing on the importance of media’s role in taking any art form to the masses, the musicians appealed to newspapers to give more space for arts.
The AIMG, formed two years ago, held its third meeting here to “take stock of the current scenario in the music world and to identify issues which are prejudicial to its moving in the right direction.”
Eminent classical vocalists Ajoy Chakrabarty, Rajan Mishra, Sajan Mishra, santoor player Shivkumar Sharma, sitarist Arvind Parikh, carnatic singer Sudha Raghunathan and Mandolin artiste U Shrinivas were also present.
The musicians noted that the wave of globalisation that was sweeping across the world had moved the Indian music to the masses — away from the patronage of the elite.
Expressing concern over the “meagre” financial and related support extended by the Governments — both at the Central and state levels — to the cause of music, the musicians said Prasar Bharathi had increased the allocation for culture from Rs 33 crore to Rs 49 crore, consequent to their meeting with officials concerned.
Stating that there could be around 25,000 artistes, including those who were not graded, in the country, Parikh said slots had been obtained from All India Radio in cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata for up-and-coming artistes with the sponsorship of corporate houses.
“Our most important agenda will be to collect money from corporate houses and promote young talents,” he said. He said the AIMG had also held talks with insurance companies like Oriental and New India Insurance to evolve special policies for aged and indigent musicians at a subsidised premium. The musicians also stressed the need for music education in schools and colleges in order to create a next generation of musicians as well as audience.
“In a nutshell, our appeal is to adopt an artiste and nurture her/his career. In this world of globalisation, let the roots of our culture remain strong and intact,” Zakir said.
Change your signature, change your life
Change your signature, change your life
Ever wonder how much your handwriting says about you? Sure, you’ve heard about handwriting analysis and how the way you write a particular alphabet or sign your name can say a lot about your personality, but did you know that changing the way you write can improve your career or help you get over your inhibitions?
Sounds improbable but Chandraprabha Pupala helps people do exactly that. A trained graphologist and graphotherapist, Chandraprabha has been training people to improve themselves by improving their handwriting for the last five years.
In a telephone interview with rediff.com’s Shifra Menezes, she talks about the relatively unknown field of handwriting analysis and how she stumbled on to this unusual career choice.
Graphology is an unusual choice for a career. What initially got you interested in it?
Honestly, as a child I was very curious about why people behave the way they do. So I would observe them and study them but I never found any interesting way to know more about what made them tick. That’s why I decided to become a psychiatrist.
So I took the medical entrance exams, and got into homeopathy. There was no scope to get into an MBBS course as per my score. I finally got tired of the whole process and took a one-year break.
It was then that I came across this book on graphology. As I learnt more about it, it was so interesting. In fact, my handwriting indicated that I would not have made that great a doctor.
It can be that specific?
I can be. The specific traits required by a doctor, say memory association needs to be stronger while creative association is much less compared to say an architect.
So I dropped the idea of becoming a doctor and decided to do a degree in management and I studied for the international certificate in handwriting analysis from the US, which I completed in 2003.
How did you get started professionally?
By the time I completed my course I had started reading quite a bit about it. There were people on whom I practiced my skills and I kept experimenting. A college friend of mine, Hitesh Jirawla (he is now my business partner), kept pushing me to try it professionally. At that I point I wasn’t very confident about the acceptance of the whole concept.
I remember the first time — we decided to approach one of the country’s leading coffee shops. So we went and met people there but the response was very disappointing. They were pretty resistant to the idea and said that if at all we wanted to do it, we couldn’t charge anything.
So that was disappointing, there was no real acceptance for this kind of work.
After that we did some more research how to approach people with our idea and I gathered the courage to approach Cafe Coffee Day. There we got a nice response. They introduced this process in their HR procedures, for recruiting area managers and higher-level personnel.
After some time, I started working with the outlets as part of their marketing activities where I would sit at various outlets across Mumbai and analyse the handwriting of their customers where they could get a coffee for free.
Tell us a bit about graphology and what you do.
I have noticed that many people do know quite a bit about handwriting analysis, but that’s not all there is to it. You also need to understand behavioural patterns, how a person reacts, what are their defence mechanisms.
When we label a particular trait, saying the handwriting indicated it, most of the time people refuse to accept it — they get offended, or they have their inhibitions about revealing their weaknesses. So the process has to be handled as a counselor, which is the most important thing.
We are working on spreading awareness and we want people to get into this particular stream.
We also follow up on the people we work with, to measure efficacy and also, this kind of business will not survive without case studies and actual proof that it works.
We say your public image is your signature. In the corporate world, the biggest challenge people face is portraying one’s talent. The biggest gap is between what you are and what you want to project to the world.
We don’t realise that we might just be portraying a negative aspect or an unhealthy aspect of ourselves. This then becomes a habit. Most people reflect different personalities with different groups of people, this is because somewhere along the line one is projecting oneself on a wrong frequency. By changing the signature or designing one’s signature we attempt to align what you are and what you want to project to the rest of the world.
There are a lot of people who use standardised signatures, which I find a little funny. Everybody has their own ambition or life patterns and what works of one person will not work for another.
What people must understand is that it is not about having a simpler life but about helping you achieve your true potential. The compatibility between what you are and what you want to be is the most important, which very few people actually get.
How accurate is graphotherapy in addressing a person’s fears etc?
I believe the accuracy in ascertaining an individual’s personality from their handwriting has an accuracy of 90-95 per cent.
Tell us about your company.
Chandraprabha wasn’t a formal company until two years back. Up until then we were just freelancing, and the tie-up with Cafe Coffee Day was on for about a year or so. At that point we hadn’t even thought of making a company out of it because there was a lot of resistance and questions about the whole thing.
After we completed the course, Hitesh and I decided that we would take up working on the therapy aspect of graphology. At that point there was nobody in India who addressed this aspect professionally. The concept was usually confused with other concepts. People usually undertake teaching and training at times but those are not that specific.
The application on graphology and graphotherapy has huge scope, so we decided to explore this route.
What were the challenges you faced?
Firstly, people were not really aware of how graphology works and didn’t really believe that it was effective. There was a lot of energy that we had to put in to convince them that it works. That was the biggest challenge.
Right now we don’t have any competitors as such, but taking this up as a full-time career has its own risks. When we take the idea to a company, we first have to begin with making them aware of the particular science, then that it does, in fact, work.
Once they are convinced it works, they begin accepting it and the business aspect comes in. This is a long process for anybody.
Do you train people in graphology?
We do train people, but that is a very select work. It’s mostly done in the HR projects.
Most of the work happens when people want to transform themselves and their lives. So that includes handwriting analysis and signature design, which means changing handwriting and changing personality which is graphotherapy.
Tell us about your clientele.
There are a lot of people in senior management positions with whom we work — CEOs and MDs. We also work with individuals who want to transform their lives and there are a number of celebrities as well.
We have worked with Devita Saraf who is director of Zenith Computers and CEO, VU Technologies, Ruchir Mody, managing director, Torrent Pharma, Sabira Merchant had got her handwriting analysed a while back.
Over the last five years, we have analysed over 10,000 individuals. However, we still rely highly on word of mouth promotion.
How many people do you have on the team?
I’m the only graphologist on the team. The rest of the team is on the admin side of things. There is a whole module clients need to follow for the therapy to be effective.
It is not a future predictive science at all. Handwriting works on a simple principle, where your brain gives instructions to your hand to write; what we are doing is using your hand to give instructions to your brain.
When you are thinking there is a chemical process happening in your brain, a chemical pathway is formed called a neuropathway. Now every time you write, a neuropathway is created. When you make a change in your handwriting you are actually altering your neuropathway.
The therapy works on exercising your handwriting. We develop a stroke looking at your requirements. It’s not that your handwriting will look beautiful after the programme, but it works on addressing a particular fear or weakness.
So, we work on a particular letter or stroke for a minimum of 45 days, and then the hand gives instructions to your brain. That’s when it begins to work in a mechanism.
How does one go about establishing a career in this field?
At this point in time in India, firstly one would require all the skills of an entrepreneur to take it up full-time — a lot of determination, a lot of courage. You have got to be persistent, and push through no matter how tough the going gets.
Another thing that people must understand is that it is not a future predictive science. Once people actually understand that, their interest level tends to just drop. It’s more like a psycho-analysis of an individual’s personality.
It is a big responsibility, because you are trying to help people improve themselves. So whether you are reading a book or getting trained by someone, you need to be aware of that responsibility.
Five years down the line, is it still a challenge to convince people?
There is still a lot of resistance to the idea, people still do have reservations. However, I have done a few media events with news channels and radio stations. That has opened people up quite a bit, but there’s still a long way to go.
Is there money to be made in such a profession?
The cost of our services ranges anywhere from Rs 5,000 for an individual to Rs 60,000 for corporates. When we started out it was Rs 50 to Rs 100.
Are there courses in graphology in India?
There are many people who claim to offer courses in the subject, but after looking at what they offer and the work they do, I would say that they were nowhere near what a training programme should be.
What are your plans for the future?
We are developing a training course, but right now the main limitation is time. We are focused on the clients and the application side for now. We are doing some training for corporates, but we will come up will a certification programme soon.
Source: rediff.com
Anger slows down healing process
Anger slows down healing process
AFP
PARIS: The adage that laughter is the best medicine has been backed by an unusual investigation which says that people who seethe with anger take longer to recover from injury.
Previous studies have linked ill tempered behaviour, whether brow-beating or road rage, with higher incidence of coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke, especially among men.
But the new study, published on Wednesday in the British journal Brain, Behaviour, Immunity, is the first controlled experiment that directly measures the impact of ire on the healing process.
Researchers at the University of Ohio inflicted minor burns on the forearms of 98 volunteers who were then monitored over eight days to see how quickly the skin repaired itself.
The subjects had each taken a battery of psychological tests beforehand to assess how easily and often they felt and expressed wrath, and were then ranked on an “anger scale”.
Persons who took certain pharmaceutical drugs, smoked cigarettes or drank excessive quantities of caffeine-laden coffee were excluded, along with individuals who were extremely over- or under-weight.
The results were startlingly clear: individuals who had trouble controlling expressions of anger were four times likelier to need more than four days for their wounds to heal, compared with counterparts who could master their anger.
But the researchers were also surprised to find that anger has its nuances, too.
Subjects described as showing “anger out” (regular outbursts of aggression or hostility) or “anger in” (repressed rage) healed almost as quickly as individuals who ranked low on all anger scales.
Only those who tried but failed to hold in their feelings of upset and distemper took longer to heal.
This same group also showed a higher secretion of the stress hormone cortisol, which could at least partly explain the difference in healing time, the study noted.
Earlier research has shown a clear link between cortisol and anger. Hostile men who yelled at spouses during marital spats secreted more of the endocrine modulator within minutes, as did teachers experiencing high levels of stress in the classroom.
High levels of cortisol appears to decrease the production at the point of injury of two cytokines crucial to the repair process, suggests the study.
Cytokines are proteins released by immune-system cells. They act as signallers to generate a wider immune response. “The ability to regulate the expression of one’s anger has a clinically relevant impact on wound healing,” concludes lead author Jean-Philippe Gouin, a psychologist at the University of Ohio. “Those who has low anger control secreted more cortisol following exposition to this stressor. This individual difference in the response to the blistering was related to longer healing,” Gouin added.
Anger-control therapy could help patients recovering from surgery or injury heal more quickly, the paper says.
Empost launches new goods shipment service
Empost launches new goods shipment service
Staff Report GULF NEWS Published: February 19, 2008, 00:35
Dubai: Empost, on Monrday launched the Heavies Express Service that will provide commercial and residential customers access to a range of value-added benefits on their large shipments.
This service will enable door-to-door transportation of shipments that weigh 5kg or more without any maximum weight, with special discounted rates to South Asia and parts of Europe.
Customers will also be empowered with control over their shipments through the online tracking facility via the company’s website, http://www.empostuae.com
Empost Corporation, an official subsidiary and fully owned by Emirates Post Holding Group was established in May 1997 with the express aim of fulfilling all courier and communication needs for quick delivery across the country.
Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Empost’s CEO, Sultan Al Midfa said: “With trade activities on the rise easy day, Empost is well positioned to provide its customers with true end-to-end solutions while giving them the added advantage through medium like the internet and the benefit of better rates on their shipments as well as the possibility of dedicating a special representative to collect shipments on pre-agreed schedules.”
Empost has evolved over the past decade to cater to growing and diverse business needs through a host of services such as Ezimail, Total Mailroom Management System, Economy Express, Ezidox, Track and Trace, and a stream of other services. A reliable logistics solutions provider, Empost’s multi-pronged approach is put into practice by a team of 1,000 specialised staff members to make it the UAE’s fastest growing integrated freight forwarding and logistics solutions provider.
Join us in the Clean up campaign
Join us in the Clean up campaign
Abu Dhabi’s coastline is in dire need of your help. Waste from construction sites, boats and from the land have littered our coastline, not only causing an eye sore but also endangering precious marine life such as dugongs and sea turtles, our health and our fragile environment. Abu Dhabi Government is really very concerned about this issue.
There is still time to show your commitment.
Join us in the Clean up campaign as we move along the Abu Dhabi coast in our endeavour to keep our coast clean
How do we join in this time?
Join us in our Clean-Up Campaign on Saturday February 16th, 2008 at the Public beach at Mirfa in the western region
A tent will be set up at the site. Gloves, trash bags and refreshments will be available. The clean up will start at 8.30Am in the morning. The clean up will go on for about 2 hours.
Interested volunteers from Abu Dhabi will collect at 6.30am at Spinneys parking lot in Khalidiyah. The clean up site is at Mirfa public beach. The plan is for all volunteers to collect and move together from Spinneys Khalidiya in Abu Dhabi. Buses are being arranged for all those who don’t have cars to commute.It would take about one and half an hour to reach Mirfa coast in the western region. After the event, volunteers who traveled by bus will be dropped back at Spinneys supermarket. For those who want to travel by bus, please do contact and reserve your seats latest by 13th of February.
Who all can participate?
Social centers, general public, Private sector, Government organizations, youth etc
How do I/ we participate?
To volunteer in this important campaign, kindly complete the Registration form and submit it online to graghwa@ead.ae or moali@ead.ae or mhaneefa@ead.ae or ralmadfai@ead.ae
Please note spaces are limited so it is based on a first-come first-serve basis. Those companies / organization who can bring in their own buses or cars with their group, do inform us how many of you are coming
Did you know that we collected 6,720 kg of waste from the Mussafah Industrial area for the February 09 clean up campaign!
For more details, please visit: http://www.ead.ae/en/?T=4&ID=3554
Second-tier retailing is a Smart Idea
Second-tier retailing is a Smart Idea
Rajiv Banerjee & Ravi Balakrishnan with Preethi Chamikutty , TNN
Even within India’s retail solar system, not many would have heard of Anil Adamane from Nagpur or Rajasekar Reddy Seelam from Hyderabad . And if the names do ring a bell, it certainly won’t be beyond the vicinity of the cities they dwell in. They don’t enjoy the nationwide fame that’s reserved for the likes of the Biyanis, Ambanis and Mittals — yet Adamane, Reddy Seelam and their ilk are charting a course which, sooner or later, will bring them national recognition .
For they are the second tier of marketers who’re building up retail networks far away from the glitz and glare of the major metros. They have painstakingly built equity in their home turf and are now spreading their wings. From Bellezza saloon to 24Letter Mantra to Khadim’s to Witco, they are the emerging faces of specialised second-tier retailing in India.
Adamane and Reddy Seelam are shining examples of mini-metro entrepreneurship that stemmed from the desire to break out of the daily rut and chase opportunity . Adamane, an MCom graduate, was forced to start a daily provision shop in Nagpur for want of good job prospects. To augment his income, Adamane converted part of his shop into an ice cream parlour and STD booth, starting work at four in the morning and shutting shop by midnight. During his visits to the neighbourhood saloon for a shave, Adamane observed the business closely. “It was a dirty ramshackle hole in the wall, with hygiene being the last thing on the barber’s mind. Yet it was doing brisk business, and the wait sometimes was as long as 30 minutes,” he reminisces. That’s when he hit upon a unique service proposition: a saloon with an emphasis on hygiene, ambience and value pricing. Bellezza came into existence in 2003 with the first outlet in Nagpur. Today, Adamane runs 22 Bellezza saloons across Maharashtra, Gujarat , Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. From a two-man outfit — with Adamane learning the craft on the job — Bellezza employs 300 people, and has a turnover of Rs 9 crore.
Out in Hyderabad, it took nearly two years for Reddy Seelam to get an efficient supply chain in place before he rolled out 24Letter Mantra, a retail format specialising in organic farm produce. Reddy Seelam says that launching the format was a culmination of a dream from the time he started working to starting a light engineering firm, which he later sold off. “It was a pure profit venture,” he admits.
His hailing from an agricultural family helped ease the task of convincing farmers to be a part of the venture. The first 24Letter Mantra started in 2005, and since then three more stores have been launched in Bangalore and Pune. “The spread has been slow. But in such a venture , one requires efficient procurement processes, given the nature of products we retail,” explains Reddy Seelam.
The evolution of formats like Bellezza, 24Letter Mantra, Yo! China and Khadim’s indicates an interesting geographic spread these players have envisaged. Yo! China, a quick service restaurant and takeaway chain specialising in Chinese cuisine, has outlets across tier I and tier II cities across India. Likewise, footwear retail chain Khadim’s started operations in Kolkata before moving to states in the east, south and then west. In Maharashtra, Khadim’s has presence in cities like Aurangabad, Nagpur, Sangli and Satara.
These players have adopted a bottom-up strategy, where the brand gets built in markets devoid of cut-throat competition, and then gets scaled up to major metros. Jim Lucas , director of retail ecology, Draftfcb, states that this phenomenon is largely unique to India, where small retailers are innovating even when it comes to expanding their network . “Ten years back, the move was always from the centre to the periphery.
But now formats are been launched from the periphery and are coming to the centre,” explains Lucas. Operating from the fringes has enabled them to tap enormous opportunities which exist in tier II and III towns and cities. “In cities like Patna, we are pretty much the only branded food chain,” says Ashish Kapur, MD, Yo! China. Adamane is clear that the small towns are where the potential is. His strategy is to look at small towns with populations of 40 lakh and target 1% of the population which owns cars and bikes.
Chennai-based premium luggage retailer Witco, however, presents a contrasting case of a regional brand which has shed its ‘small-pond aspirations’ and wants to compete across major metros. VP Harris, MD, Witco, reveals that five years back, the format gave up the positioning of a retailer of travel goods and accessories, a positioning that’s been in existence for nearly four decades. Harris says that post liberalisation, competition from overseas prompted Witco to relook at not only its positioning but also its physical presence.
Premium luggage and accessories was chosen as a plank, and Witco decided to exit small towns like Ooty, Salem and Trichy to focus on metros like Chennai and Bangalore. “In the premium segment, 90% of the market is in the top 12 metros, with maximum consumption coming from international air travelers. Once we have exhausted the metros, we will look at tier II cities,” says Harris. With 12 Witco stores across Chennai and Bangalore, Harris’ plans for forays into Western markets have hit a barrier — high real estate costs. Harris says Witco has now hired the services of an investment banker to help identify a strategic partner. “More than infusion of funds, the partnership will enable us to speed up the process of identifying real estate for store expansion,” he explains.
Kapur of Yo! China says that his format is present in tier II and III towns as restaurants and food courts because in these centres, acquiring volume is important. “Consumption is great and the cost structures are far better. Real estate is more reasonable,” he explains. Kapur believes that the biggest mistake players make is assuming expansion has to be retail-driven , with the approach invariably being to begin in a mall. “Now we know who the target audience is. We want to go where he resides and be in the format best suited to him. My target is young professionals and so we are at tech parks. Even in Tier II towns, we study where the target segment resides and situate ourselves irrespective of the new property being developed,” he says. Vikram Thaploo, VP – projects & marketing, Express Retail Services, which owns Big Apple stores with formats across Delhi and NCR — with Gujarat and Karnataka on the anvil — agrees, saying the company doesn’t have any store in malls and isn’t planning any either . “We offer convenience of time and neighbourhood. We are for customers coming in daily or weekly — not as a destination supermarket,” says Thaploo.
With expansion, these regional players have to contend with establishing a presence in markets with near-zero brand recall. It also means working on distribution, logistics, manpower and understanding unique purchasing behaviour as well. While foraying into other eastern states was easy for Khadim’s given the presence it already had through its wholesalers, Suman Barman Roy, president, Khadim’s , admits that the move to the southern market in 2000 was a challenge. “Dealing with the different cost structures in terms of logistics, transportation as well as taxes which, in those days, were in wide variance from state to state… Other issues were recruiting and training manpower, setting up a distribution chain, revamping the IT backbone,” explains Barman Roy. He says that in 2000, the company chose to open self-owned outlets to gain acceptance amongst the local vendors, before opting for the franchisee route. Also, each state has specific size assortment requirements , making distribution a logistical nightmare.
“We have styles and size assortments suited to the needs and tastes of specific regions . Eastern and southern India will have more basic styles, while the north and western India requires ‘fashion items’ . Also footwear being fashion driven, there is rapid obsolescence of style, which makes the situation even more complex ,” he explains. Kapur of Yo! China believes that supply chain problem solutions is a high-cost one, and he hopes that riding piggyback on overall retail growth makes distribution easier. “Vendors across India need to be far more innovative. They are currently waiting for retailers to work with them rather than coming up with innovative solutions and products that cater to the food services industry,” he states.
Having acquired scale, most second-tier marketers are looking at new formats. Adamane plans to start a gents-only saloon called Bello — Bellezza is for both sexes — with a low-cost value offering as its proposition . Khadim’s , for its part, has opened a large format department retail called Khadim’s Egaro in Kolkata, which it plans to take it national . Reddy Seelam says that his company is experimenting with smaller shop-in-shops formats of 24Letter Mantra with a national chain, and if successful, wants to rapidly scale up to around 150 shop-inshops by next year. “We are also looking to brand the produce we export to Europe and other markets once we acquire a retail portfolio,” he states.
The blueprint to the future appears to have been well chalked out. These tier-two retailers have spent decades polishing their skills and are now limbering up to play in the big league. It’s obvious that not everyone will succeed. Over time, some will falter and would have to go back to the drawing board. A few others will inevitably get acquired by the heavyweights. The most patient , persistent and innovative of the lot, however, will go on to rewrite the rules of the game. And maybe even end up writing a book on how It Happened in Nagpur. Or Hyderabad. Or Kharagpur.
Sharjah temperature will drop to 9C tonight
Sharjah temperature will drop to 9C tonight
By Mahmood Saberi and Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporters GULF NEWS Published: February 04, 2008, 23:31
Dubai: Night-time temperatures will dip to 9C on Tuesday night with Sharjah recording the lowest and Abu Dhabi slightly higher at 12C, according to the Dubai met office.
A marine warning has gone out and will be valid until this morning, advising boats not to venture out to sea. This is because the winds are blowing rough offshore at 50 km/h or 27 knots, making the sea very choppy. Inland, the winds are mild at 28 km/h or 15 knots.
A high pressure system from Iran is blowing north-easterly winds across the emirates and driving down the minimum temperatures, according to Dr. S.K. Gupta, duty forecaster.
“There will be fine weather and sunny days ahead,” he said, as the clouds are dissipating towards the East Coast. There will be no rain for the next three days. On Monday, Dubai recorded 0.2 mm of rain and a “few spots of rain” in Sharjah.
“It will be partly cloudy with a chance of frosty conditions over the mountains and some Western areas”, according to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology in Abu Dhabi.
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