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Muscat: Hailstorms lashed the northern parts of Omani capital for almost 30 minutes on Wednesday.
"It was like small cubes of ice but not in definite shape," Saeed Masood, an Omani resident of Seeb, 45-km north of central Ruwi, told .
He said the streets were covered with ice and traffic came to a halt as visibility reduced drastically.
"Our terrace was filled with solid pieces of ice," said Yogesh Shah, a long-time Oman resident who lives in a terrace flat in Seeb.
After the storm stopped, Shah said children in the area had a gala time. "For sometime children started throwing ice at each other," he said.
There was nothing unusual about hailstorms as it had happened in the past too, said Hamid Al Brashdi of the Meteorological and Air Navigation Department.
He predicted more rains, accompanied by thunderstorms, due to continued trough of low pressure that first brought rains in Musandam and Wusta region and then over Muscat.
The meteorological office advised people to take extra care during rains, especially in low-lying areas. |
