As a series of extreme weather events swept across the Middle East, people in several Middle Eastern countries were on high alert over the weekend.
As countries scramble to respond to extreme and unusual situations, many onlookers frantically upload photos and videos online.
The Middle East experienced a series of natural disasters this weekend.
Wildfires in Lebanon
Last Sunday, there was a fire in several towns in Lebanon, and helicopters hovered over southern Lebanon.
Helicopters can be heard circling over southern Lebanon on Sunday after fire broke out in several towns the night before. According to Lebanese authorities, the fire killed at least one person, a foreign worker who died in a warehouse in the northern city.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati ordered the authorities and army to take immediate action to extinguish the fires that took place near the southern port city of Tyre.
The cause of multiple fires was due to high temperatures, spreading to several mountainous areas and, in some cases, burning near residential areas in nearby villages.
Civil Defence Forces and volunteers have been struggling to fight the fires since Saturday night to contain the spread, according to local media reports. High wind speeds caused the fire to spread further.
Online, there are fears that fires are engulfing vast tracts of green space and destroying the environment.
Many social media users use the hashtag "The South is Burning" to try to raise awareness of what's going on.
Fires broke out in the Akka Mountains, Beqa Valley and Jebel Mountains and destroyed large tracts of land in two nearby villages.
Some also shared photos of cars covered in volcanic ash after a fire broke out in Beirut.
Iran earthquake
In Iran, people affected by the disaster were forced to flee their homes on Sunday as two strong earthquakes struck the country.
According to Iranian state television, a 22-year-old man died after being hit in the head by a telephone pole in the earthquake.
The earthquakes that struck near Abbas Port in southern Iran on Sunday were 6.3 and 6.4, respectively. The tremors can be felt in Dubai and Saudi Arabia in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Iranian Red Crescent Society sent a team to estimate the damage in the area.
Iran is located on multiple seismic fault lines, so moderate earthquakes often occur. However, the earthquake this weekend was unusually strong.
Egyptian scorpions are infested
In the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, a swarm of scorpions took over the city and the Egyptians had to fight for safety.
Three people died, at least 400 were stabbed, and hospitals in the area were overcrowded.
Scorpions were washed up into streets and people's homes, where they sought refuge from bad weather.
Aswan Governor Ashraf Atiyah imposed restrictions on travel and transportation due to low visibility caused by extreme weather.
Citizens were urged to stay home, avoid going to places with trees, and not to drive on highways.
Schools in Aswan were also ordered to close.
The Egyptian Meteorological Service said it expects intermittent rains and thunderstorms to continue in many parts of the southern Sinai Peninsula and southern Egypt in the coming days, including cities such as Minya, Ashut, Suhag and Luxor.
Lightning and floods in Saudi Arabia
The plummeting temperature drop in Saudi Arabia has led to flooding in many parts of Jeddah, the country's Red Sea coast.
The continuous rains of recent days have made it difficult for residents to travel. Many highways and major roads are flooded.
The Saudis have been using the hashtag "Jeddah" to share videos of extreme weather conditions.
Although Saudi Arabia experiences heavy rains at this time of year, thunderstorms surprise many people because roads are blocked and people cannot travel easily.
For many countries in the Middle East, the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow, derided by many as a failure, eliminated two sides to the core issue of climate change: they are not the main causes of global warming, but they will be severely affected.