Hot winds that blew through Lebanon and caused forest fires across the country will considerably recede Wednesday and temperatures are expected to drop, meteorologists told The Daily Star. “The weather will be much better on Wednesday and the heat wave will subside as of Tuesday night,” a source at theMeteorological Department of the Rafik Hariri International Airportsaid. Temperatures soared over 40 degrees Celsius as dozens of firefighters doused bush fires that broke out Tuesday in the northern and eastern Beirut suburbs of Fanar, Jdeideh, Sadd al-Boushrieh and Kfar Shima. Civil Defense teams also put out forest fires in Sidon, Tyre, Nabatieh, Sarafand and Tayr Diba in the south of the country. Firefighters managed to douse a sugar cane fire at a rural property in Adloun, south Lebanon, while other teams, backed by the Lebanese Army, battled a huge blaze at a greenhouse inTabarja and a forest fire in Kfar Yassin in the Kesrouan district north of Beirut. The Meteorological Department said the weather Wednesday would be cloudy with a significant drop in temperatures as hot winds are expected to recede. Humidity levels will increase and temperatures are expected to range between 16 and 30 degrees Celsius. The Daily Star
