Kuwaiti Storm Chaser Captures Images of Climate Change
Climate change is causing a rise in extreme weather events, and one woman is putting herself in the path of these storms to capture images that could help us understand and predict them. Sarah Hasan Al-Sayegh is a Kuwaiti-Arab storm chaser who tracks ferocious storms to both photograph nature’s wild beauty and document our changing weather systems.
Al-Sayegh became interested in storm chasing in 2011 when she was photographing a landscape and a huge Haboob dust storm came towards her. She was fascinated by the storm and from that moment, she was hooked.
Since then, Al-Sayegh has been photographing the storms that sweep across Kuwait and the Arabian Peninsula. She has noticed changes in the weather patterns in the Middle East, with more extreme weather events happening in recent years. Al-Sayegh says that storm chasing has helped her to realize that climate change is real and serious.
Storm chasing is a male-dominated activity, particularly in the Gulf region. Al-Sayegh is hopeful that more Arab women will take it up following her example. She encourages girls who want to be storm chasers or go into male-dominated jobs to go for it and not let people tell them that they can’t do it because they’re female.
Al-Sayegh has yet to see a tornado first-hand on the Arabian Peninsula, but she has captured images of some astonishing cloud formations, such as a huge “supercell” or “rotating thunderstorm” that resembles a flying saucer. She now hopes to expand her meteorological knowledge and raise awareness around climate change.
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