Oh sweet rain

Awesome rain! Though some countries wouldn't think so. The weather right now is amazing, and I hope it remains this way but not to the extent of a flood. A slight drizzle for a while would definitely calm the nerves, and perhaps heavy showers every once in a while.

Right now, I hear reports that the situation in Saudi Arabia is horrible, and I hope everything gets better soon, as I wouldn't want to see my car floatin' around the hood.


Few days ago before the raining began, I saw a post on Facebook that said the following, whether it was true or not I did not know:

"The U.S. Navy in Bahrain declares state of emergency for Bahrain, Qatar, eastern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

البحرية الامريكية في البحرين تعلن حالة الطوارئ للبحرين وقطر وشرق السعودية والكويت والامارات نتيجة دخول حالة تعتبر من اقوى الحالات خلال 30 سنة الماضية

The case is considered one of the strongest cases for the past 30 years, and it warns their marine on these above countries from the wave of torrential rains too. It will begin on the morning of Sunday, November 17th and will continue until Thursday, 21 November, where it will rain for 3 days, continuously on these countries. and the U.S. Navy analyzed that this case is a strong low weather is coming from the north and the source is from the Caspian Sea in northern Iran, and there are logistical support strong moisture tropical immense sourced from the Indian Ocean with moisture from the huge basin Arabian Gulf, at the confluence of humidity stream from the north with the current humidity from the middle and a humidity stream from the south will create a state of instability layers of the upper atmosphere on the northern, central and east and west of the Arab Gulf states. Cause of this weather forecast, the emergence of Altocumulus with huge pull Alsopersel black clouds which gives lightning and severe thunderstorms, which could turn the day into Dark. This gives a very heavy rain accompanied by large grains of hails. and the possibility of emergence sea Hurricane water with sea view and warn sailors from the Navy not to go to the sea throughout the next week as well as not to risk in the wild (Deseret) and low places as a result of those heavy rains too.

Issued by the U.S. Navy
Friday. November 15, 2013

تحذر البحرية هذه الدول من ترقب موجة امطار غزيرة جدا ابتدأ من صباح يوم الاحد 17 نوفمبر وتستمر حتى يوم الخميس 21 نوفمبر الجاري حيث تستمر الامطار 3 ايام بشكل متواصل على هذه الدول وتحلل البحرية الامريكية ان هذه الحالة عبارة عن منخفض جوي قوي قادم من الشمال ومصدره بحر قزوين في شمال ايران وهناك دعم لوجستي قوي من رطوبة استوائية هائلة مصدرها المحيط الهندي مع رطوبة هائلة من حوض الخليج العربي وعند التقاء تيار رطب من الشمال مع تيار رطب من الوسط وتيار رطب من الجنوب سيخلق حالة من عدم الاستقرار بطبقات الجو العليا على شمال ووسط وشرق وغرب دول الخليج العربي وتسبب الحالة الجوية بظهور سحب ركامية ضخمة مع سحب السوبرسيل السوداء والتي تعطي صواعق وعواصف رعدية شديدة مما قد يتحول النهار الى ضلام وهذا يعطي امطار غزيرة جدا مصحوبة بحبات برد كبيرة ولايستبعد ظهور اعاصير مائية بعرض البحر وتحذر البحرية البحارة من عدم ارتداء البحر طوال الاسبوع القادم وكذلك عدم المجازفة في البراري والاماكن المنخفضة نتيجة توقع سيول من جراء الامطار الغزيرة جدا.

صادر عن البحرية الامريكية بيوم الجمعة
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The pictures above are what I took inside and around the Ministry of Education.

Here is an article written about how climate change is affecting particularly the Gulf. I'm not sure if this is new to several Gulf countries but from what I remember, it did flood to this extent say four years ago.


There is also another article by GDN 4 days ago that talks of a "storm". And while I was searching for news on past floods, I came across another article by GDN for 2011:

"ALMOST an inch of rain soaked Bahrain throughout Tuesday and into yesterday, causing misery for residents and shopkeepers still coming to terms with the downpour 24 hours later.

At the height of flooding water was said to be almost knee-deep in some places, with at least one major highway experiencing tailbacks hours after the rains stopped, due to the absence of a storm water drainage system."

Reminds me of Manila when I visited this August, ankle-deep.