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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Hail leaves striking landscape in Saudi Arabia |
| 2022-01-14 |
| [Weather] It was near Badr City at about 24N latitude (about the same as Havana, Cuba) elevation about 400'. Link is to a video. The al Arabia article below calls it snow, but it was hail. https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2022/01/12/Saudi-Arabia-rare-hail-storm-leaves-sand-dunes-covered-in-snow-in-Medina- |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #1 ...When I was there in 1995, we had golf-ball sized hail for two days straight...during a five day stretch of rain so heavy that we couldn't get to the base at al-Kharj from our quarters in Riyadh. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2022-01-14 06:48 |