rain

Predict Dubai’s first rain of the season 2010!

November 8, 2010

UPDATE: This is the part where I’m allowed to say, OH SHIT! It’s 5:30 pm in Dubai, November 8 and? it RAINED. I love you rain but you were not supposed to pour on the day I post the predict-the-Dubai-rain contest! Such a kill joy! Sorry friends, I have to close this. It rained on [...]

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Sandstorm, thunderstorm, what next?

April 13, 2009

The sands were moving as I got down from the bus on my way home yesterday afternoon. The wind was strong. Sandstorm! * Photo not my own but still depicting the sandstorm in Dubai. * I couldn’t open my eyes because unfortunately, I was walking on the opposite direction as the wind. The wind picked [...]

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Rain, in March?

March 26, 2009

Seriously, you gotta think that something’s amiss. It is RAINING, hard, in Dubai, in March! The last rain we got was around the first week of January and usually no wet day until around November/December – at least in my two years of stay here, it never rained in March in 2007 and 2008. And [...]

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It’s raining but I don’t mind

January 15, 2009

We’re having continuous bad weather for three consecutive days now. Dubai bad weather means gray skies and dropletsof rain but this morning, we woke up to a real downpour. The forecast says more rain will be expected today. Rain is a rare occurrence here in the UAE (although it has rained a lot in 2007 [...]

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when it rains, it (simply) floods

December 8, 2008

I knew these morning clouds were up to something. By 9 am last Thursday, it rained again for an hour flooding the streets and creating massive traffic. Some roads are blocked, some have closed 2 lanes out of 4 as no one wants to pass in the deep flood water. Splash! Weee! Even the flyover was [...]

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we got lightning, thunder and rain too!

November 27, 2008

The big, fat suspicious clouds yesterday gave way to rain! This is the first real rain we had in the Emirates since February or March this year. I spent too much time staying up late last night watching lightning in the skies and hearing rolls of thunder, however faint sounding. Weather like this makes me [...]

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in Dubai, the possibilities are endless

May 7, 2008

First, they made man-made islands, marina, port and harbor, artificial snow (ski resort), and now, would you believe, they are bent on creating artificial rain? Yesterday’s rain was induced, man-made, artificial, fake! I knew something wasn’t right! The articles can be found in Gulf News titled, Cloud seeding experiment has thundering success (with photos) and [...]

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