Weather

Actually for 9 months of the year the weather is pretty good. 6 months of the year Europeans will love it. The 2 months leading up to summer and the month after can only be loved by Australians.

Then there is summer!! To be fair Saudis must have dome something very bad in their past and summer is God's way to punish them. 50C is common. 50C-55C occurs quite a bit during the worst of the summer months of July & August.

Everyone tries to avoid going outside in the day during summer. The night time is when everyone comes out to eat, shop, mingle, and drive (yup, there is that ugly word again!). Driving at night in major cities during summer necessitates adding 1-2 hours in commute time (regardless of how far you have to go). A popular 1 km street filled with cafes can take 10 minutes to cover most of the time, most of the year and up to 1-2 hours between 8pm and 2am during summer.

To finish a word about winter. In the last few years they have been quite mild (southern European in nature). However we have had winters where the temperature at night has dropped to below zero. Out in the desert winter temperatures can be quite cold whilst summer is brutal.

It is truly a land of contrasts!! I love it.