BY A STAFF REPORTER

THE weather has been relatively upbeat despite a heavy downpour and calamitous in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK). The sun showed its pale face on Monday, slowly brightening up the entire Gulf by mid noon.

The Shamal developed at the Gulf on Monday also slowed down by afternoon and the next couple of days are forecast to be calm and quiet.

"There are a couple of fine days and fine nights coming up," a senior meteorologist in Dubai said. "

The maximum temperature will remain between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius and the days will remain sunny but cool."

However, there is something developing in the outer skies that may lash the region with rains and winds in the forthcoming days, meteorologists in Sharjah said with wailed warning.

The weather was cold and sunny on Monday and hilly RAK, which was heavily battered by the rain and flash floods, has remained cool and soothing without showing signs of last Saturday's fury of the weather, met office sources in RAK said.

Sharjah met office sources added that it could be dusty on Tuesday.

In the medical field, doctors said that the enclosed atmosphere at housing camps and work sites, air-conditioning and closed enclosures are causing the spread of viruses on chicken pox that were "not supposed to spread during winter days" in the UAE.

"There is no such bifurcation as winter or summer spreading viruses. It all depends on the living conditions where viruses are allowed to easily spread," a specialist doctor told The Gulf Today on Monday.

Chicken pox is one of the viral attacks that has witnessed widespread impact among the residents in the UAE, even during the winter days.