NNA - The Beirut airport-based meteorology department denied reports claiming that temperatures will hit 45 °C on August 1. In its forecast, it expected Wednesday's weather to be little to partly cloudy with a rise in temperature degrees.

Coastal temperatures: 27 to 33 degrees Celsius

Mountainous temperatures: 18 to 31 degrees Celsius

Inland temperatures: 24 to 39 degrees Celsius

Surface wind: Southwesterly during the day, southerly to southeasterly at night; with speeds gusting between 15 and 40 km/hr

Visibility: Average, worsens occasionally due to fog

Coastline humidity: 70 to 95%

Sea: Medium to low waves, with surface water temperature at 29 degrees Celsius

Sunrise: 5:44

Sunset: 19:44

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