Don't laugh it's not funny - The Sharaf

Now, it took me a while in Israel to realise what the brown grey, smoggy. misty atmoshphere is on some days in the Middle East. They call it a Sharaf - it is a mixture of a heat wave and sandstorm.

The sky is red and brown due to all the sand in the air, and the weather is honestly like a sauna, humid, muggy, actually laughable when you exit from an air conditioned area. People and life just moves slower on these days and you cannot do anything other than accept it. Now a sharaf (sandstorm/heatwave) breaks after a few days resulting in the heavens opening with rain. (Note: the weather is still hot humid and disgusting while it rains) No cool relieve. So a mixture of sandstorm and water creates a weird substance when it hits land.

I happened to time my car wash perfectly the day before the sharaf started, this picture the day after the sharaf broke.