Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The Climate Services Department at the National Center of Meteorology (NCM) revealed that the average temperatures for the month of May this year were the highest for the same month since 1991.

In a statement on its Twitter account, NCM stated that the temperatures in May were the highest when compared with the months of May during the last three decades.

The National Center of Meteorology revealed earlier that the coming August will be the hottest among the months of the year in the Kingdom. In Riyadh, August will be the blistering month with average temperature fluctuating between 29.2°C and 43.6°C.

Hussein Al-Qahtani, spokesman of NCM, said that the city of Jeddah had topped the cities of the Kingdom with the highest temperature, reaching 52.3 degrees Celsius during the year 2010.

Jeddah was the second in the world after the Pakistani city of Mohenjo Daro, which scored 53.5 in the same year, he added.

Meanwhile, the Family Affairs Council has suggested four ways to protect family members from high temperatures during the summer period, including drinking fluids, covering the head and using sunscreen.

The council said, in a tweet, said that family members can be protected from the summer heat by drinking more fluids, reducing the use of heat-generating devices, planting trees in the possible spaces of the house, using sunscreen, covering the head and wearing sunglasses.

The council indicated that there will be extreme hot temperatures in some regions of the Kingdom during the summer season and the family has the responsibility to maintain the health and safety of its members.