Residents of Lima, a city where it virtually never rains, panicked in the face of a couple of thunderclaps amidst a drizzle, Peruvian media reported Friday. The uncharacteristic storm happened late Thursday, and it made residents of northern, central and western Lima particularly uneasy, as thunder was louder there.
The Peruvian Meteorology and Hydrology Service was quick to stress that the storm was only the result of accumulation within one cloud and that there was nothing to fear. Lima residents are not used to thunder, with the most recent such event dating back to 1997. That time, the storm was even scarier, since it came coupled with lightning. Back then, radio programmes got scores of calls of people worried about hearing noises and seeing lights in the sky.
Lima is in a desert, and it almost never rains there, although locals call "rain" any slight drizzle that barely gets the streets wet. The city lies in the South Pacific anticyclone, which does not allow the formation of large clouds, meteorologist Nelson Quispe said.
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