# Mecca, now with hot showers...

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**Created:** [June 8, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mecca-now-with-hot-showers/624454 "2012-06-08T02:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mecca-now-with-hot-showers/624454/1 "2012-06-08T02:01:19Z")

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Bait and switch, I always say…

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> Pilgrims to the holy city of Mekkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia must have been astonished on Tuesday afternoon, when the weather transformed from widespread dust with a temperature of 113°F (45°C) to a thunderstorm with rain. Remarkably, the air temperature during the thunderstorm was a sizzling 109°F (43°C), and the relative humidity a scant 18%. It is exceedingly rare to get rain when the temperature rises above 100°F

[Link](http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2114)