NNA - The Beirut airport-based meteorology department has expected Friday's weather to be cloudy to partly cloudy with scattered rain and decreasing temperatures, before starting to gradually improve in the afternoon.

Coastal temperatures: 11 to 16 degrees Celsius

Mountainous temperatures: 4 to 11 degrees Celsius

Inland temperatures: 5 to 11 degrees Celsius

Surface winds: Southwesterly, with winds gusting between 20 and 50 km/hr

Visibility: Generally bad due to fog and heavy rain

Coastline humidity: 55 to 80%

Sea: Wavy to stormy, with surface water temperature at 18 degrees Celsius

Sunrise: 6:04

Sunset: 17:36

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