Whew!!

It reached a record high of 44.5C (112F) in Dhahran yesterday. And we aren't even into the hot season yet! It was around 90F last night at 8pm when I took the dogs for their walk. No more jaunts in the jebels after work--I need to wait until the sun goes down before we can venture outside.

Aramco is a meteorologist's dream because there are about 30 weather stations at Aramco facilities all over KSA. Very few of those stations are in urban settings (because there aren't really "urban settings" like you'd find in the US). Each station is equipped with state of the art equipment and all of them send data back to a central data repository via satellite. (Production in many of the fields is monitored and controlled with equally high tech systems.) I can access the feed from each of the weather stations from the Aramco home page.

I mentioned a few posts ago that it was very dry here. And for the most part this is true. But there can be a few weeks in the middle of the year, like, say, now, when humidity soars. Today, humidity has suddenly zoomed up to 84% by 7am. Combined with temps over 100F, I'd have to say it is downright uncomfortable out there.