Dubai weather

More rain expected in the UAE in the next 48 hours

March 1, 2010

We received a circular at work today regarding weather warning for UAE residents. It seems that Saturday’s rain that left hundreds of people stranded on the road and a lot of flooding wasn’t all – to think the rainfall that single night must be equivalent to the whole year of rain in Dubai. From the [...]

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Torrential rains in the desert!?

February 28, 2010

Looking at the blue skies and sun coming out today, last night seemed like a distant nightmare. It rained heavily, like those rains in the tropical rainforests of South-East Asia. We’re talking of buckets upon buckets of rain being poured all at once kind of thunderstorm. Ok, no problem…would be relaxing even had we been home, [...]

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Sandstorm and good news for Dubai

February 4, 2010

We’ve been experiencing nasty sandstorms as of this writing today in Dubai. I went out to go to the gym during lunch break and amazed how fine sand found its way through my sunglasses to my eyes! I felt the slap of sand in my cheeks, ouch not nice. It’s also suddenly getting hot in [...]

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Dubai flooding after continuous rain

December 13, 2009

Just in!! As tweeted (by myself and other Dubai residents) about the rain that evolved from lovely to catastrophic… Take a look at how the street outside my work building looks like after whole day of drizzle in Dubai! Everyone should bring their swimsuits when it rains here. Just below where the yellow crane is, [...]

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It’s raining, raining, raining

December 11, 2009

There’s some kind of surreal thing going on with the weather we are experiencing right now in Dubai. It has been raining since yesterday! What a joy. We’ve been waiting for this kind of cool break, literally from the summer heat and kind of a change from the usual sunny-blue-skies weather we have 330 days a year. Forgive [...]

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Fluffy clouds and no rain

December 10, 2009

We’ve been having really nice weather here lately. By nice, that would mean, something that would have to do with cooler temperatures and for me, clouds and rain. When I look into the skies every single morning, it always seems like it’s going to rain right that very moment but it just won’t. Dubai skies [...]

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Dubai’s first rain of the season finally here

November 23, 2009

Photo for illustration purposes only Yesterday at Twitter, came a very surprising tweet: “It’s raining in Dubai!!” I rushed outside to see if indeed the first showers of the season has come but no, from where I was, it was dry. But the tweets keep on coming. It has rained at an area near the Mall [...]

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When it rains it pours? When it’s gone, it’s gone

November 19, 2009

Photo credit: jetlears Just a quick note, someone’s putting the pieces of the puzzle together to create a new theme for the blog so you might see something wonky or out of place (or not because the designer is cool and powerful. Hint: not me). If everything goes well, my blog will be wearing something [...]

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