Sunrise, With Clouds!
Good Morning, Kuwait!
When I got up this morning, I could hardly believe my eyes – CLOUDS! Clouds and the sunrise, and errant rays everywhere, it was SO beautiful I couldn’t not share it with you:
We had such a paltry rainy season last year; Kuwait needs rain, needs rain desperately. There is a chance of rain on Sunday, but the humidity is high, and you can feel the rain drops getting ready to form – God willing.
20% Chance of Rain!
Wooo HOOOO, Kuwait! Look what the next five days have in store for us! On the fifth day – a 20% chance of rain!
I know, I know, it’s only 20% – but it is the first HINT of rain we have seen in lo, these many months. I will rejoice at 20% and hope that rain will come soon, God willing. Kuwait needs rain.
Here is how it looks this morning, as the sun comes up from the horizon:
Yesterday, we had fishing boats, strung from right to left, so beautiful. This morning, we have Coast Guard boats. These guys seem to me to be one of the best equipped and maintained outfits in Kuwait. If I were a young Kuwaiti male, I would join the Coast Guard. They have some really, really fast boats, and some other boats that look like a lot of fun. They get to do testosterone-filled things like interdict people trying to come into Kuwait illegally, and drug runners, rescue picnic-ers and people whose boats catch on fire or fishermen whose boats sink. Wouldn’t that get your blood running a little faster?
Sweet October Morning
Goooooood Morning, Kuwait!
It is a sweet morning, a beautiful morning. You can see almost all the way to the horizon, and the lethal layer that hangs over it is somehow thinner this morning:
One of my favorite places, Weather Underground: Kuwait tells us we have five more days below 100°F coming up and here is what it looks like this morning:
The house still smells of cinnamon and clove and Mom’s Fruit Cakes which I spent all day yesterday chopping, pitting, baking, and wrapping in the crisp Kuwait Autumn weather. 😉 I fell into bed last night around eight, and slept almost straight through until 0600 this morning, an exhausted Qatteri Cat snuggled up between AdventureMan and me. No, no, we don’t eat the fruitcakes yet. You make them around the end of October and you store them, heavily wrapped, in the refrigerator until Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November) when you are allowed to taste the first one. They mellow as they age in the refrigerator.
In other countries, not Kuwait, you wrap them in cheesecloth soaked in brandy, and you can open them now and then and brush on a little more brandy with a pastry brush. Sigh. I am not much for drinking, but I miss the smell of the brandy soaking into the fruitcakes.
Sunrise Struggle
I wasn’t any struggle to be up for sunrise this morning; sunrise is getting later and later every morning. It seems to be very close to 6 a.m. now. But look how the sun has to struggle this morning to break through the murky horizon. Yesterday we had blue sky! Today the haze and murk are back, and the sun’s rays are dim and pallid.
5 Day Kuwait Forecast
Wooo HOOOOO Kuwait! Look at this forecast! Winter has arrived, not a single day in the upcoming five days expected to go to 100°F! Wooo HOOOO!
I woke up this morning to hear the wind whistling and we have lots of wave action today and the surf is up – not the glassy calm of the summer mornings.
Ansam, because you ask, sunrise was around 0600 this morning. 🙂
Lazy Thursday Sunrise 16 Oct 08
Good morning, Kuwait! (biiiiig yyaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnn!)
Hope you slept well. It’s a beautiful day out there, hot, dry – and look! Humidity only 25%! We can live with that.
Up with the sun this morning, and another rosy sulphurous sunrise this morning:
TGIT! Hope you have a great weekend.
Sunrise Blog Action Day, 15 October 2008
A very rosy pink sunrise this morning, and, Thanks be to God, the humidity back down to 28%! High humidity is wonderful; it reminds us how good it is to have low humidity, LOL!
Sunrise October 14, 2008
Tomorrow is Blog Action Day: Poverty.
When I checked the temperature this morning a cold front had moved in! It is 73°F / 23°C! After yesterday’s humidity coated my windows, I had never dared to hope for a crisp, cool morning. Temperatures are supposed to be back up this afternoon, back into the low 100’s / 39°C.
The weather continues to play havok with my health. I am feeling a lot better, finally, but I sound like Typhoid Mary. (hack, cough, wheeze) (I am very good about covering my mouth.)
Here is the magnificent sunrise for today:
It’s a beautiful morning . . .GOOD morning, Kuwait!
Gigantic Sunrise
It must be an accident of atmospheric refraction or some other optical illusion – I did not photoshop this photo, the sun just turned out huge. I took others where the sun is smaller, but this one made me laugh out loud, and I hope it will brighten your day, too.
Good Morning, Kuwait!
For my non-Kuwait, non-Gulf readers, today is like Thank-God-it’s-Thursday. Tomorrow is the holy day (even many Christians go to church here on Friday) and some people also have off Saturday, some don’t.
At 0800 in Kuwait, it is 82°F / 28°C – my favorite temperature conversion, because it is easy to remember, same backwards and forewards. Yesterday, I even saw my first laborer wearing a neckscarf because of the cooler temperatures, LLLLOOOLLLLLLLLLL!
Blogger Mathai, at Just Blog It posted four sunsets, which are lovely, but scroll down his page to the October 6th entry for one of the most beautiful photos of downtown Kuwait I have ever seen. Taken during the Eid, the skys are SO blue!
6 October 2008 Back to Normal
The sound of early morning traffic humming by the house woke me early this morning, early enough to catch the sun coming up. The truth – as I see it – is that this is a very ho-hum, back to normal kind of morning. People are in the back-to-work mode, focused, not all that happy, after the glorious celebration of Eid, to be heading back to hum-drum normal. The sunrise was also sort of ho-hum, but there is a little wave action going on, and the temperature is only 79°F / 26°C and not expected to go over 98°F / 37°C.
I don’t mean to complain. It is a lovely sunrise. I might have had too much caffein this morning!
Sometimes, in the fall, I feel a little restless. Maybe the inner-Alaskan starts looking for a cave in which to hibernate!
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