DHULUM: With the country's main weather authority's website down since Thursday and fears abounding of a repeat of the rains that hit Jeddah a day earlier, the public has been turning to satellite television channels, newspaper forecasts and Internet sites for the latest weather reports. The Presidency of Meteorology and Environment placed a message on its website saying it was unable to provide immediate updates due to a “failure in the system and communications network”. “A breakdown has occurred in the systems and the updating communications network for this website due to the accumulation of rain water at the systems' sites and the information network,” the statement read. “The PME would like to reassure the public that weather conditions will be stable for the next three days.” The last prognosis provided on the site was on Wednesday, the day the rains hit.
