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The weather in Kuwait is bad today….endless dust storm! (more…)

Last Saturday, 17 April at 8AM, Kuwait was surprised by  heavy dust storm turning daytime into total darkness.  The dust storm lasted for almost 30 minutes then followed by a heavy rainfall and wind that lasted for nearly an hour and a half.  This phenomenon is what they call ‘Sarayat’ in arabic. The Sarrayat occurs in two phases. The first phase lasts from April 14 till May 1. The...

I just came back from a brief vacation in the US. Two days before my flight back to Kuwait, an Icelandic volcano called Eyjafjallajökull (don’t ask me ask how it is pronounced) erupted which caused massive disruption to air traffic across Europe because of the big amount of ash ejected from the volcano (similar to our Mt. Pinatubo in 1991). So what’s the big deal with ashes and the...