00:00Good evening and welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening. Today is Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
00:12Today is roughly the 12th of Rabi Al-Fani. Let me go straight to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and
00:20let's see how the giant El Niño or super El Niño phenomenon has begun to affect the Arab Gulf states.
00:27The entire world, including the Arabian Gulf states and the Arab region, will be affected by that beast lurking in
00:33the Pacific Ocean, which is growing more monstrous day by day.
00:36Let me go to Saudi Arabia and a threat to the holy city of Mecca.
00:44And let's look at what happened just a short while ago, about an hour or two ago, and see this
00:50dense hailstorm that struck or targeted Mecca.
00:57And I expect these clips we are seeing are from the Al-Shara'i neighborhood in Mecca.
01:06I don't know if anyone is there too. Let's see the hailstones or snow falling there in the city of
01:13Mecca.
01:18Frankly, many clips are coming in from Mecca at these moments, but this is also one of the clips that
01:24affected me the most.
01:28And it was published during the past few hours, the large amount of hail or snow that fell yesterday.
01:37In Al-Shafa Ta'if or on the Al-Shafa Ta'if road, look at this massive amount of hailstones
01:44that look like snow.
01:47Look how it covered this farm or this small farm or the small garden in front of a citizen's house
01:54in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
01:56It used to be rare for us to see clips like this, with hailstones of this size, in the Kingdom
02:03of Saudi Arabia.
02:04The weather is changing whether we like it or not, and the world is changing, but honestly, this is one
02:10of the strongest storms I have seen.
02:13Over the past few hours, a storm with very heavy rain was recorded hitting the city of Al-Harida.
02:19I believe the city of Al-Harida is located in the south of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
02:26Let's take a look at this clip showing the power of this enormous, truly exceptional storm in every sense of
02:38the word,
02:39with massive amounts of lightning and thunder that accompanied this heavy rain.
02:49Glory be to God.
02:50Honestly, it's one of the rarest times I've ever seen and recorded a storm with such tremendous intensity of wind,
02:58lightning, and rain in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
03:03And apparently, this is just the beginning.
03:05This has been Ahmed Abdurrah from The Shusayir Show.
03:08Stay safe.
