Rain falls across several regions of the country
SHARJAH: Heavy to moderate rain was witnessed in Fujairah, Sharjah, and Ras Al Khaimah on Friday morning.
The rain resulted in a significant decrease in temperatures and waterlogging in the main roundabouts and streets. The scatered rain started in the wee hours in several suburbs.
The UAE weather body, National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) said moderate to heavy rain was witnessed in Fujairah’s Wadi Saham, Wadi Laban, Al Furfar, and Khalifa Road.
Light rain was experienced over Wadi Shees in Sharjah. Videos shared by NCM showed rain in valleys and suburbs.
The NCM said, “Chance of convective clouds formation associated with rainfall over some Eastern coastal areas with fresh winds, reaching 45 km/h at times causing blowing dust and sand with poor horizontal visibility, from the period 09:00 until 17:30, on Friday 20/11/2020. The weather body expects that the weather on Saturday will be partly cloudy over the eastern, northern areas and over the sea.
It is also expected to be humid by night over some coastal and internal areas.
The NCM has called on the motorists to exercise caution while driving under the rain, and during the low horizontal visibility caused by raised dust and dirt. It also advised people to stay away from valleys and the surface-run-offs.
TREASURING FISHERS’ KNOWLEDGE: The
Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi, EAD, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, have launched the IUCN Guidelines for the Gathering of Fishers’ Knowledge for Policy Development and Applied Use.
The launch, which was held to commemorate the World Fisheries Day — celebrated every year on 21st November, is also in collaboration with World Forum of Fisher Peoples, and International Planning Commitee Working Group on Fisheries.
Thevoluntaryguidelinesrecognisetheimportance of both indigenous, local marine-coastal community knowledge, and experienced Fishers’ Knowledge for the development of Fisheries Policy. They are designed to provide guidance on how to utilise this rich cultural knowledge in resource management, across a range of contexts, in pursuit of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management.
The management of fisheries is defined across marineandfreshwatersystemsaswellascommercial, recreational, subsistence and small-scale fisheries.
They guidelines were developed by a team led by the Environment Agency-abu Dhabi and included contributions from 50 experts and case studies from 16 countries.
They also consulted with stakeholders from subject mater experts to governments, small-scale fisher organisations, indigenous fisher organisations, civil society organisations, research and academia, and the private sector.