{"id":5486,"date":"2026-01-20T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:12:26","slug":"fog-affects-monday-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/fog-affects-monday-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"Fog affects Monday commute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Shaden Al Darawshe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Fog conditions across the UAE Monday prompted an alert to&nbsp; American University of Sharjah students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early morning email from the Office of Safety and Crisis Management noted the conditions were especially likely to affect travel in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It advised commuters to leave early and drive carefully, and those on campus to exercise care especially with e-scooters and bicycles until visibility improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fog wasn\u2019t too bad up close,\u201d student Lara Deeya Mudallal, who drove from Dubai, said of Monday\u2019s commute. \u201cThe problem was the sight from far away.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The travel conditions made her, like many others, arrive late for class.&nbsp;Another Monday email asked faculty to show leniency to late-arriving students that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shaden Al Darawshe UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Fog conditions across the UAE Monday prompted an alert to&nbsp; American University of Sharjah students. The early morning email from the Office of Safety and Crisis Management noted the conditions were especially likely to affect travel in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. It advised commuters to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,21,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-campus","9":"tag-safety","10":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}