DAMASCUS, (SANA)-Damascus city and countryside Sunday witnessed heavy rains and thunderstorms for the second day in a rare phenomena that won't happen in the region during August.

"The region was under a hot, tropical low accompanied by a humid and moderate air mass, and this led to fall of heavy rains afternoon for two days reached in Damascus to one inch," a source at Meteorology said in a statement.

It added that this rare air situation usually occurs in the humid tropical regions and is called seasonal rains that often happen in the hot summer.

Damascus and the coastal arias also witnessed yesterday heavy rains and thunderstorms 

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