Raining and Floods in Yemen

 What you get is rainy seasons, maybe 1-2 each year. It will rain a lot in say a one-two week period and there might be flooding perhaps and then we go months without rain. It typically rains just before or after Asr when it rains, so it makes for great planning most of the time. [...]

Flash Flooding

The rainy season is here and yesterday we had some flash flooding. Flash flooding is very common in Yemen:

Flash floods devastate Yemen (2008) BBC video
Flash floods hit Yemen (2008) BBC video
 Flash Floods ‘Cause Havoc’ in Yemen
 A video we captured about a year and a half ago  while riding home(August 2007)

 My boys go out and run a lot [...]

Tracking the Rain

Well, on April 1, we got our first rain for the new Gregorian year. I thought’d be interesting for us to track just how much it rains here, which is not a lot. There are about 1-2 rainy seasons per year where it will rain for days and then no rain to be seen for [...]