The town of Umm Said in Qatar lies around 60 km to the south of Doha the capital of Qatar where the 2022 World Cup is being held this year.
Umm Saʿīd, also called Musayʿīd or Mesaieed, town and port situated in Qatar, on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula, in the Persian Gulf. It was established in 1949 as a tanker terminal by the Qatar Petroleum Company on an inhospitable, previously uninhabited site, along the sabkhah (salt flat) terrain characteristic of the coast.
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Presumably because it is a busy and important oil terminal hourly SYNOPSYNOP SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically mad hourly and consist of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not available) describing general weather information, such as the temperature, barometric pressure and visibility at a weather station. observations are reported from Umm Said, whereas the international airport only reports three hourly. This is a thermograph for the last 48 hours from Umm Said.
That weather in Qatar doesn’t look too severe at the moment for playing football, that’s if you can keep out of the sun which is easier said than done. Humidities are certainly higher because coming off the Persian Gulf but football beats coal mining and these are getting mighty well paid for running around kicking a ball for 90 minutes.
I hadn’t realised that the final wasn’t till the 18th of December – so we’ll never hear the end of it on TV for the next four week!!. As for the weather that looks set fair for the start of the completion.
