Pakistan is flooded. What a historic flooding!? I wish everybody there safety and a speedy recovery. Pakistan usually receives summer rain. The indian monsoon that builds up in summer, stretches up to Pakistan every year during July and August. But 2010 monsoon proved to be totally different! While the media has focused extensively on the human and health impacts of the flooding, I thought of giving an idea of how much rain really fell in Pakistan. The below 2 images (from NASA TRMM site) shows rainfall for the last 30 days. The first shows total rainfall, and the second shows anomaly [ Read More ]
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Update: At least 24 people have died in Oman due to Cyclone Phet Update: Cyclone Phet is leaving Oman now and moving to Pakistan. It will reach Pakistan late Sat/early Sunday as a weak tropical storm/depression and not a cyclone. Parts of SE Iran could get some rain from the storm as well. Phet also caused high waves along UAE east coast. Update: Cyclone Phet made landfall over Oman eastern coast. Now it is over the interior regions of eastern Oman. Highest rainfall so far more than 300mm, with Sur getting around 250mm of rain. The eye of Phet makes landfall [ Read More ]
_____ Recap: There have been more than 10 death cases in Egypt due to the flood in addition to damage to properties. There have also been casualities and/or damage in Palestine, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. There is an unconfirmed report of more than 200mm of rain falling in Sinai. ____________________________  This is what I like about the weather. There are no strict rules the weather has to follow. The element of surprise is always there, and there could always be extreme weather anywhere in the world. At such times, one wonders if the definition of “average weather” has any meaning [ Read More ]
Since we have gone through around 40% of this winter which started in December 2009 and lasts till the end of February 2010 (meteorological winter). I have a few points to highlight: Precipitation: Late November and December were wetter than normal across many parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Gulf, and the Gulf of Oman. All gulf countries experienced rain this Decemebr including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE. Two areas of exceptional rainfall: 1) Western Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea, especially Jeddah and its surrounding, where floods have wrecked havoc on Jeddah late November with [ Read More ]
