KUWAIT: With summer arriving across the region, Kuwait seems to be enjoying spring-like weather for longer than usual this year. Many people in the country have already noticed that the customary oven-like temperatures and searing heat for which the country's summers are known have been late to arrive in 2011, with residents recalling that in previous years Kuwait's unforgiving summer weather always arrived fast, usually around March, and lasted for months. Winters in the Gulf region tend to be short and to give way to summer weather fast, with the barometer usually rising above 100 from March onwards.
These have been the recognized regional weather patterns for this area for at least three decades, but now things are changing, says local meteorologist Issa Ramadan, who attributes these shifting and unpredictable weather patterns to climate change. Ramadan explained that weather patterns across the world are inextricably linked to one another, with the air masses that affect the Middle East being most closely connected to those in the rest of the northern hemisphere.
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