|

Severe thunderstorms, rain and hail hit Dubai, UAE

ByJulie Celestial
severe-thunderstorms-rain-and-hail-hit-dubai-uae

Image credit: @babarswaleheen/Twitter

Severe thunderstorm, described as one of the biggest of the year, struck Dubai, UAE on Saturday night, March 21, 2020. The event was accompanied by heavy rain and hail, an unusual sight for the desert city.

The event gained mixed reactions from many residents, who took to social media to share images and videos of the event.

Some were shocked over the severe weather as lightning illuminated the skies while hail pelted down the ground. Some were stunned that such a system occurred in the springtime.

"The thunderstorm accompanied by hail & lightning looks intense. It’s gone completely dark outside," BBC reported Sameer Hashmi wrote on Twitter.

"Still couldn’t believe we had hailstones falling from the sky onto our balcony," said musician Will Janssen on the same platform.

The sky flashed non-stop for nearly an hour from 16:00 UTC (20:00 LT), with thunders roaring loud. Flash flooding followed as streets quickly filled up with water.

Hailstones covered the roads, backyards, and highways, reducing visibility to about 50 m (164 feet). Dubai Marina bore the brunt of the storm, but no damage or injuries have been reported.

The thunderstorms continued towards the coastal areas, with one heavy downpour also striking Abu Dhabi.

Stormy weather continued into Sunday and Monday.

    This author does not have any more posts.
Share:

Published in the last 24 hours

  1. A 19-year-old Nebraska teacher reportedly tied her pupils together with twine and led them to safety through a blizzard in January 1888 Epicenter
  2. NASA built the Opportunity rover to last 90 days on Mars, and Martian winds helped keep it alive for nearly 15 years by blowing dust off its solar panels, until a planet-wide dust storm in 2018 blocked sunlight and silenced the rover Epicenter
  3. In the winter of 1811–12, earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri, shook so hard that witnesses saw the Mississippi River flow backward, and the shaking left a brand-new lake in Tennessee Epicenter
  4. On 28 August 1859 a solar storm shocked telegraph operators and threw sparks on other lines, and on 2 September Boston to Portland clerks unhooked their batteries and kept sending for more than two hours on the aurora's current alone. Epicenter

From around the web