It rained today! Our first rain of the year and our first rain in almost a year. We got a lot of rain last winter (when I say “a lot” I mean for here), but once Covid started, it dried up. Right before Christmas, the mosques all prayed for rain as part of their Friday service. I don’t know if it’s an annual thing, but it’s something they’ve done a few times since we’ve lived here. I’m going to start praying for rain because I miss it. And when it only lasts for 5 or 10 minutes, it leaves me wanting more. If we’re home for 2 weeks with remote school, we could at least have a rainy couch day to enjoy along with it.
Last year UAE did a bunch of cloud seeding — they fly planes into the clouds and shoot salt crystal flares into them to try to attract extra water so they get heavier and rain is released. I don’t know how much of it is due to the cloud seeding and how much is due to natural rainfall, but we did have more this past year when they did more seeding (over 200 attempts).
Star was not a fan of the mysterious wet stuff falling from the sky. She ran around a bit, slipped on the tiles, and then rapidly headed back inside to safety.
