Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24 hours, sparking
The United Arab Emirates saw its heaviest rainfall recorded and parts of Dubai remain flooded. The UAE uses cloud seeding to create more rain. Could it have caused the flood?
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was inundated with water on Tuesday after
Professor Maarten Ambaum, a meteorologist at the University of Reading who
Severe floods inundated the United Arab Emirates this week, as a storm
A torrent of rain on Tuesday flooded parts of Dubai, turned streets into rivers and shut down the world’s second-busiest airport for a time. The deluge of water triggered the question: Was this disaster caused by the United Arab Emirates’ cloud-seeding program? Officials at the country’s National Center of Meteorology have been cited as saying the rain was not caused by cloud seeding. CNN has reached out to the center for comment. But even if the program did fly its planes through the sky...
In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain,
Mr Jaques, a meteorologist, warned there could be 'unintended consequences' to using the technology, leading to 'diplomatic instability' between nations.
The downpour was a product of weather patterns that meteorological models predicted as much as a week earlier, not cloud seeding, according to scientists.
The arid nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) received the "heaviest rain ever" on Tuesday, leading to flooding in Dubai.The rain was called “a historic weather event” by the state-run WAM news agency, surpassing "anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman also received rainfall on Tuesday.The widespread rainwitnessed across the UAE is believed to have been caused by “cloud seeding”, among other factors. Emirates' National Center for...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The National Center of Meteorology, a government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, said it had not carried out the weather modification technique in the run-up to the heavy storms that caused flooding in places like Dubai. The organization told CNBC that it did not dispatch pilots for seeding operations before or during the storm that struck the UAE on Tuesday. Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director general of the NCM, said the...
Heavy rain and flash floods sweep across the desert nation.