Home » Philippine Current Events

Hurricane to Hit Saudi Arabia ? Is it true

5 June 2007 No Comment

Thanks for your visit, We would also like to invite you in Tech At Hand

This might be out of topic but I am posting this for a reason that lots of OFW in is afraid this coming June 10 due to the email coming out circulating the Filipino Community. The email say that there will be that will hit Riyadh on June 10.

The email shows this picture :

The Navy expects the arrival of the to Amman and then to on June 10 is the most powerful hurricane prospective claimed intrudes in the Arabian Peninsula until it reaches and the eastern region … The proportion of rain in Riyadh that claimed 70 mm especially south of city..

And so I did some research in the Internet and I found this NEWS by Reuters.

, June 4 (Reuters) – The world’s top oil exporter said on Monday its main oil-exporting region would not be affected by a storm nearing the Arabian Peninsula, but southern neighbor Oman put its army and police on high alert.

There will not be a direct effect from the Gonu storm in the central and eastern regions of the kingdom,” said Saudi state-run al-Ikhbariya television in a flash citing the weather service of the leading OPEC producer.

called on people living in areas at risk to leave before the cyclone reaches land, the official ONA news agency said. Oman’s weather service warned of winds of 185 km-205 km (114-128 miles) per hour causing “very high waves”.

It named two Indian Ocean islands exposed to danger.

Omani state television said the storm was located about 580 km from the sultanate’s coast and approaching it at about 18 km per hour.

“It will make landfall within 30 hours,” the television said.

Oman’s 715,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil production is much smaller than Saudi Arabia’s output of close to nine million bpd.

In OPEC member the United Arab Emirates, a shipping agent said no official warning had been issued although the country’s eastern coastline opens onto the Indian Ocean.

“The note we all received today just mentioned we should be expecting some wind and rain and we did not get any official warning,” said the Abu Dhabi-based agent.

A Dubai-based shipping agent also said no official warning had been sent to his company.

“If it was dangerous, we would have been informed,” he said.

Although the NEWS says that it will not hit Riyadh I still urge all of you to pray that this hurricane will not harm People from Amman Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Leave your response!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.