Unseasonal hailstorms and flooding hit Saudi Arabia

Unseasonal hailstorms and flooding hit Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is facing a sudden weather crisis that is throwing everyday routines, plus trips and holidays, into chaos. On August 12, social media was quickly filled with clips of storms acting far from the summer script. The videos, shot from pockets of the kingdom, show the kind of downpours and hail that usually wait for winter. Taif, in the south, was hit hard; the streets there ran with water and a chill that is never in the summer forecast…