The following are extreme weather events in Mecca and the surrounding area. In November 2009, Makkah Province was badly affected when record-breaking rainfall of 90 millimetres (3.5 in) hit the province causing flash floods all over the province.
Definition of spinster. 1 : a woman whose occupation is to spin. 2a archaic : an unmarried woman of gentle familyb : an unmarried woman and especially one past the common age for marrying.
Sara, at the time I met her, was a buxom, phlegmatic spinster of sixty, equipped with an experience so tragic and unusual that though her tongue ran on for decades its output would still be of imperishable interest to her cronies.