Humidity to continue till end of September

Kuwait recorded 80 percent humidity earlier this week before it dropped yesterday, and it is likely to pick up again sporadically until the end of September, a leading Kuwaiti meteorologist said.

The humid weather is attributed to the vapor-saturated southeastern winds dominating the Arabian peninsula all the way to the Red Sea, Mohammed Karam, Meteorological Department Director at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, said. He further noted that temperatures usually drop in high humidity to as low as 44 degrees, while the shifting of winds to southwestern on Tuesday helped drop humidity and increase temperature to 47 C degrees.