Exercise 42: Rain

It seems rather unfair to have two exercises about rain and none about other types of weather or climatic conditions, especially when living in a place like Dubai.  I considered myself fortunate to run into the first rain exercise at a time of year when Dubai actually sees dark clouds and wet streets, but now it's midsummer and it's nothing but heat and haze likely lasting until about October.

Exercise 31: Cloudy Weather and Rain

I thought it might be a while before I was able to shoot photos for this exercise.  If ever.  Dubai experiences only 25 days of precipitation per year, which on average - 2 days a month - doesn't seem so infrequent.   But look again at the amount of annual rainfall - 94mm - and you see how paltry rain actually is.  If you divide that annual average by the number of days, you get a daily average of less than 4mm. That's about the width of a wedding band.

In reality we seem to have a few days each year when we get a substantial downpour. For the others we have some clouds and a bit of drizzle.  You might not even know it rained until you saw a car, which is a great surface for showing the mess that results from water being splattered on a surface lightly coated with fine sand.  Like this: