Well, the first rain of the season in the mediterranean countries (see previous blog entry) was not widespread. Only Syria got meaningful rains (poor forecast by the GFS model). However, the city of Aleppo in Syria received very heavy rainfall from a thunderstorm on Sep 27. (rainfall around 150mm) The below photo was taken from Syria News By looking at the meteogram of Aleppo, we can see that a modetate thunderstorm hit Aleppo at
