What's unique about this is it's pulling in moisture from the Pacific Ocean from an atmospheric river, and that is going to translate to very heavy rain and very heavy snowfall across the mountainous regions.
On the other hand the notion that Earth gravity could capture and retain such a large object was unlikely, since there is no obvious resisting medium to slows down an object as big as the Moon.
That same weather system also hit the neighboring nation of the United Arab Emirates or UAE where four inches of rain fell in some areas of the country in just 12 hours.
However, the vast majority of that rain falls during just the four months of the wet season between December and March when the area's monsoons and tropical cyclones are generally active.
The savage man, and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and disease–every impediment which Nature could place in the way–had all been overcome with Anglo-Saxon tenacity.