Having mentioned previously that so far north, Kuwait is more under desert than Gulf influence than, say, the Emirates, let me relate an experience. I was enjoying afternoon coffee springtime when temperatures are balmy in the shade of apartments near Ras Al Ard, the port at the tip of Ras Al Salmiya (map), Ras meaning cape or promontory. It was halfway along the Corniche from my flat (facing Arabian Gulf east) the Aquarium & Scientific Centre (facing Kuwait Bay north). I was actually admiring "l'ombre du desert", French for desert shadow cast on the eastern horizon by the sun lowering to the west. That shadow is made manifest by the dust or sand in the atmosphere in desert regions, but little did I know it was accentuated by a sandstorm or haboob approaching from the north! Sitting by tower blocks I missed it, and I was neither on my phone nor on the radio to heed warnings.