On Why It Should Rain More Often in Amman! Please Let It Rain!

Having lived in the UK for more than four years, and have complained about the weather almost-always more than once a day, and dare I say, never liked the wet weather, nor the dampness, nor the rain. And always longed for sunny DRY Amman, with its extended dry days and the beautiful all-day sun exposure -- up until I arrived here, and now it’s almost mid-December, and there’s not a single drop of rain!

The climate change that is affecting Amman, and causing a dry and bitter cold, is taking its toll on people’s health: germs are spreading; heating bills: excruciatingly rising and wardrobe confusion for so many; who are certainly agonized by the difference between day-time temperature and night-time cold weather. More reasons to worry would be the likelihood of limited collection of water in the reservoirs and thus more agony during the summer.

If a four year period can show such significant change in weather and climate, I am really worried about what the coming decades have in store for us. While more studies are showing a decline in rainfall over the past fifty odd years; the impact of which may result in serious effects on desertification, drought, water resources and agriculture, a touch of change on how the weather is different on the small scale is quite unpleasant as well.

While the above would justify for a status quo of utter panic, I can’t see people worried the least! Which puzzles me especially when I see the degree of chaos driven by any change to the petrol prices. For some odd reasons, Jordanians worry if the matter involved that they will be required to WALK for a couple of hundred metres, but care not about the fact that they might die of thirst in the near future!

So after four years of hating the rain, and wishing for it to go away, and to come back another day, I am now ACTUALLY hoping for some rain! let it rain, let it rain!