Dubai flooding prompts orders to 'stay at home' after city gets 2 years of rain in one day


by Yahoo

Yahoo— In just one day, two years of rain fell on Dubai, triggering flash flooding that crippled a city not accustomed to rain.

ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos—Dubai sees severe flooding after getting 2 years' worth of rain in 24 hours. Over a half foot -- 6.26 inches -- of rain was recorded between 10 p.m. local time Monday and 10 p.m. local time Tuesday, according to the Dubai Meteorological Office.

Al Jazeera—Dubai submerged in floods as UAE gets over a year’s worth of rain in hours. Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dumping more than a year and a half's rain on the desert city-state of Dubai...

dailym.ai—Dubai is flooded with FLOODS! As city struggles to recover from biggest rainfall in 75 years, a look at how the streets are regularly overflowing after storms. Punishing rains - the heaviest experienced by the UAE in the 75 years that records have been kept - brought much of the country to a standstill and trapped thousands earlier this week