The holy capital of the Islamic religion is the ancient and beautiful city of Mecca. Located in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia, with temperatures often exceeding 45 degrees Celsius, this is the last place you would expect to experience heavy floods.
However, since the city is located in a low-lying region it is threatened by seasonal flash floods despite the low amount of annual rainfall. A flash flood is a very rapid flooding event often occurring with little warning.
Heavy rainfall over the past week has resulted in significant flash floods in the city of Mecca today. At the time of writing the floods are ongoing. The pictures below show streets inundated by flood waters and a number of vehicles being swept away by the currents.
All images courtesy of Zakhir Hussain.
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is it real? bcs i was there at May 7th and there was no sign of raining
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Mecca has had flash floods before. These can occur very rapidly, hence the name flash flood. This particular one was caused by large amounts of rainfall over the past week.
Quote : “Since the city is located in a low-lying region it is threatened by seasonal flash floods despite the low amount of annual rainfall.”
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