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Saudi to witness heatwave touching 50°C
The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has warned on Saturday that Saudi Arabia will witness a heatwave starting on Sunday and will continue until next Wednesday.
The NCM expects that the heatwave would touch 50 degrees Celsius in some regions of the Kingdom.
The NCM also expects that the maximum temperature in most of the governorates of the Eastern Province (Al-Sharqiya) and the parts between Madinah and Yanbu will reach 47 and 50 degrees Celsius respectively.
As for the eastern parts of the regions of Riyadh, Al-Qassim and the northern borders, it is expected that it will witness temperatures between 45 and 47 degrees Celsius.
