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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |||
| Middle East dust storm puts dozens in hospital | |||
| 2015-09-08 | |||
| [BBC] A large dust storm has hit western parts of the Middle East, putting dozens of people in hospital and leading to public health warnings. After hitting parts of Syria on Monday, the dust spread to larger areas of the country on Tuesday morning.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Cyprus were also affected. Leb's state news agency said two people died - one an elderly man found on a roof. Syrian media said the weather stopped fighting in Hama and Idlib provinces. The pro-government al-Watan newspaper said (in Arabic) that government helicopters were prevented from flying because of the dust. The poor weather was down partly to a low-pressure system over the entire region and sand blowing in from the east, Syria's state news agency, Sana, said (in Arabic). Poor visibility may last until the end of the week, it added.
An unseasonal sandstorm swept across the Mideast on Tuesday, covering Beirut and Damascus with a blanket of yellow dust, sending hundreds of people to hospitals with breathing difficulties and causing the deaths of two women, officials said. The storm also hit Jordan, Israel and Egypt. In Jordan, schools shut down or cut their days short. | |||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those That do no work to-day! |
| Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 2015-09-08 16:14 |
| #1 "The weather stopped fighting" - indeed a rare event in the middle east. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-09-08 11:53 |