Disturbing Weather In The U.A.E: Days 1 & 2

This week in Dubai we have been experiencing some crazy weather changes. Dubai has never experienced this type of weather in a long time. So it goes like this:

Day 1:

• Sandstorm - On Sunday we had a bad sandstorm and the sandstorm didn't stop until Tuesday. The sandstorm brought extremely strong winds until the satellites from roofs fall down and signs and billboards fall down. From what I've heard that in Al Ain, that the winds were really bad that in one residential area (I don't know where exactly) some of the satellites from the roof fell down (literally speaking) on some of the cars in that residential area and it was followed a big huge billboard falling down on them as well. This was pretty freaky, I wonder how the owners must be feeling now. They must be upset right now.
• Temporary Heatwave - As soon as the sandstorm started dying out, the temperatures shot up to 36*c and in some parts it was 38*c. The heatwave went on until Wednesday evening.
• Thunder & Lightning - On Wednesday evening the temperature just started dropping like crazy, strong winds were blowing sand and dust as well as other things in the air (bags were flying as well :P) and at the same time there was lightning going on and it was very cloudy but it didn't rain for 2 hours. Then suddenly at 8:45PM it had started to rain all over Dubai and at 9:00PM in the Garhoud area, it was raining and hailing. Yes it was hailing. The entire road from Garhoud to Sheikh Zayed Road was covered with hailstones. All the cars came to a sudden stop in the tunnels because of this, people were running for cover on the Sheikh Zayed Road and they were all watching the hail drop. Then the hail finally stopped and shifted towards other parts of the U.A.E. and it has hailed in Safa Park and everywhere else in Barsha. Man it was that bad. Then the rain had calmed down in Dubai. But it had started to affect Al Ain, from what I heard is that XTR called me and told me that the wind speed over in Al Ain was strong and he had never experienced anything like that. Don't worry the weather is like that accross the U.A.E. and we cannot do anything about it. UPDATE: I also heard that there was hail in Bur Dubai, Satwa, Jebel Ali & Some Parts of Sharjah, how convinient is that?

Day 2

Now it's day 2 and as I look out my window I can see that it's pretty cloudy, then it gets sunny for like a few seconds then it gets back to being cloudy. It was drizzling this morning since 11AM (thats the time when I woke up) till now. But it would drizzle for a few minutes then it would just stop. My friend told me that this morning it had rained a lot so the weather was pretty bad.
OMG are you seeing whats going on outside, it's nice and sunny. Oh God I wish it would just keep raining a lot until next week. Let's hope that it rains a lot so that the ministry of education would have to give us 3 days off for the bad weather. Anyways let's get back to my story.
I was just reading some of the latest articles from Gulf News and so many things have been postponed accross the U.A.E due to the amazing weather. The following things have been affected in the U.A.E:

• The World Water Day Celebrations in Abu Dhabi has been postponed due to bad wather. It will resume on the 10th of April 2009
• Dubai World Cup's "Arabian Nights" were forced to change their location to a covered place. I think they have moved to the trade center in halls 7, 8 & 9. It's NOT cancelled or anything they just moved it there.
• Traffic - expect a lot of traffic due to the weather
• Flooding - There was a lot of flooding in the Wadis far away from Dubai, many people lost their homes due to the floods

Anyways I will be adding Day 3 & Day 4 soon!