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Light Haze at Noon

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That light haze just keeps getting thicker and thicker and oranger and oranger. It is surprisingly cool and damp; I am used to most of the dust storms being HOT. A cool and damp dust storm means the orange dust is sticking to everything, to windows, to car windshields, to pavement. AdventureMan says it is piling up in drifts on some of the major roads. Be careful out there, my friends.

February 11, 2009 - Posted by | ExPat Life, Kuwait, Living Conditions, Weather | , ,

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  1. This weather is just the beginning, wait for an extreeeeemly horrible summer this year as there was virtually no rain all winter. It will be bad beyond description, and probably exceed every record. If only that dust wasn’t loaded with depleted uranium….

    PS. in an old ramadan post you spoke of pancakes that they make in co-ops. Well they aren’t really pancakes they are an arabic dessert called Qataif. The ‘pancake is stuffed with nuts and raisins and folded in half, then fried and soaked in honey. http://dxb13.multiply.com/recipes/item/11/11

    toni's avatar Comment by toni | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  2. The amount of rain makes virtually no difference to this type of dust storm. The wind is coming from Jordan/West Iraq. The dust is being carried from there. If we have record rainfall in Kuwait, it will not stop/reduce this type of storm.

    What we need is a regional plan (never going to materialise) of maintaining the soil and improving agriculture in the vast areas of South West Iraq and South East Jordan – as well as improvements in North Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

    Pancakes? What made you think of those, toni?

    Bu Yousef's avatar Comment by Bu Yousef | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  3. Bu Yousef, I understand that, however there was no rain whatsoever in the whole region. As for a regional plan, HAHAHAH… you get the idea. As for the ‘pancakes’, for some reason it just clicked when i was writing this post. The human brain (and mine in particular) is a very strange thing.

    toni's avatar Comment by toni | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  4. πŸ™‚

    Mohammad Abdullah's avatar Comment by Bu Yousef | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  5. yes the orange tinges, looks a bit eerie…seems to hang on. hope it gets going soon! πŸ™‚

    onlooker's avatar Comment by onlooker | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  6. And so it begins πŸ™‚

    kinano's avatar Comment by kinano | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  7. We haven’t had good rain for 2 winters now, so we are in for a really crappy summer.

    Desert Girl's avatar Comment by Desert Girl | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  8. Toni, are you going through my entire blog??? I hope you have tons of time on your hands . . . I’ve been blah blah blah-ing for a while now. 1. I think we have had more rain this year than we had last year, and it is still February, so I am hoping we still get more. 2. I haven’t had Qataif, and the recipe you referenced uses a sugar syrup, not honey. Sounds good, but I am supposed to be going light on the sugar. . .

    By Yousef, we had a storm like this last May, didn’t we, with dust from Jordan? As for Toni and the pancakes, well you know, maybe I am a little ADD, this is Here There and Everywhere, so it is OK πŸ˜›

    Onlooker – I want it to stop. I’m starting to wheeze. I think it is because Toni mentioned uranium . . . I’m suggestible.

    Kinano – So it seems. πŸ™‚

    Desert Girl – We need to get those mullahs to do the rain prayer again, and we can go to the desert and do the rain dance. πŸ™‚

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | February 11, 2009 | Reply

  9. That is incredible, Intlxpatr. And eerie. Do people ever wear hospital masks to avoid breathing the dust?

    Sparkle's avatar Comment by Sparkle | February 12, 2009 | Reply


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