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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Lifestyle
Cairo - Hazem Badr

Would Summer Rains Take Arabs Back to the ‘Green Desert’ Period?

Cars are stuck in flood water in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah following heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates, on January 1, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Most common interpretations of the latest summer rainfalls that hit the Arabian Peninsula point out to a weather that resembles that of the early Holocene era, which debuted over 12,000 years ago.

These interpretations shared by several weather websites are based on the change in the Arabian Peninsula’s summer rainfall map, which has remarkably expanded this year, similar to what happened during the Holocene period. These changes raise an important question: is the Arab region approaching a new climatic cycle with characteristics from the past?

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