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Ahmed Al Shehhi, a councilor for public services in Ras Al Khaimah, said the department has adopted a weather forecast system to track the speed of the winds and rain clouds before falling into different areas of Ras Al Khaimah which reduced the reaction time during emergency periods from 30 minutes to 6 during heavy rains. Minutes, in addition to sending emergency crews to various areas before heavy rains to avoid collecting rainwater and damaging roads and houses.
Al-Shehhi told Al-Ittihad Al-Youm that the system of monitoring wind speed and stormy and active clouds contributed significantly to mitigating the damage caused by the heavy rains that hit the city. Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah during the last two weeks in the Jebel Jess, Al-Mani & # 39; i and Wadi Al-Qour regions. Valleys
He added that the Department had started to implement the weather forecasting system three years ago to prevent the public from receiving public information regarding the entry of rainwater into their homes or the closure of roads as a result of the recovery of rainwater.
He emphasized that the Department has an emergency team experienced enough to deal with the weather and intervene in different areas before the rain, by monitoring and following the movements of wind and speed, as well as the proportion of humidity and temperatures of the upper layers of the atmosphere, which resulted in the formation of clouds, and determine if the clouds are active in case of risk of rain or clouds ordinary.
He stressed that, on the basis of meteorological data, he predicted the weather situation, estimated the timing of heavy rains and identified areas that would see rain in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, where the equipment, turbines, pumps and rescue teams would be immediately sent to areas where rain would fall immediately after the fall. Heavy rain with blowing wind.
He explained that the emergency team was preparing two days before the rains to equip the necessary mechanisms in the targeted areas, to clean the rainwater drainage network and to guarantee the efficiency in order to Avoid any accumulation of rainwater in flood roads or valleys and the penetration of water into dwellings adjacent to the valleys.
Al-Shehhi explained that anticipating rainfall and predicting the time it was doing before reducing the emergency response time from 30 minutes to 6 minutes in different areas of Ras Al Khaimah, said that the weather forecast system showed a great capacity to react to the recent heavy rainfall in the south of the country. In Ras Al Khaimah, rescue teams quickly responded to weather conditions and opened stormwater drainage system openings in the Mani & # 39; i region. They were used for the first time in stormwater evacuation, which facilitated the removal of water and facilitated the movement and maintenance of homes despite heavy rains.
He explained that the weather forecast system had reduced the time needed to drain rainwater from public roads and residential areas for two weeks in low areas that were suffering from heavy rains and from a rainy season. strong accumulation of rain up to only two hours, which has strengthened the ability of emergency teams to cope with all weather conditions, no matter how difficult.
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