The 2020 Middle East storms happened on 12 March 2020 and following days, bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms, floods, and sandstorms, to northern Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. They are sometimes called "The Dragon" or the "Dragon storms" (Arabic: عاصفة التنين `Āṣifat al-Tanīn "the storm of the dragon"), a name which arose in social media.