There have been some very active summer afternoon thunderstorms around the mountains of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and Iran. I guess the below IR satellite and lightning images say something. While thunderstorms are normal in Yemen at this time of the year, I’m really surprised how widespread (and more to the west than normal) the thunderstorms were in Iran. Also look at Madina, Saudi Arabia meteogram which shows thunderstorms erupting at around 1300 UTC on Aug 23rd and temperature dropping from 44c to 31. It must have been a strong storm.  Â
Archive for August, 2009
While it is not a significant weather by all standards, the eastern coast of the UAE has become somehow “tropical.” It has been cloudy for the last few days with periods of scattered drizzle and light rain. Not that it has not happened before, but it is very rare. It doesn’t happen every year. And the drizzle can fall during the day, not necessarily during the afternoon. Even the temperature has more or less stabilized between 32 and 34c. So, instead of afternoon thunderstorms forming on the western side of UAE mountains, we have
