Heavy rain lashed several parts of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday dumping over a year and a halfrsquos worth of rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in hours and flooding portions of major highways and its international airportThe heavy downpour that caused widespread flooding in Dubai and other parts of the UAE stemmed partly from cloud seeding experts said The UAE located in one of the hottest and driest regions on earth is one of the pioneers in using cloud seeding technology to...
American tourists are stuck in Dubai as historic flooding drenches the city. Dubai International Airport was flooded - leaving visitors stranded. U.S. tourists are describing the insane flooding as 'traumatic'
City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and Dubai's international airport. The state-run WAM news agency called the rain “a historic weather event” that surpassed []
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The scenes from Dubai this week seemed apocalyptic to residents who are more used to the tranquil nature of the sunny metropolis in the desert. This city hadn’t witnessed a natural disaster of such magnitude since records began, and the destruction it left behind only became apparent after the storm cleared. The United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is part, saw the heaviest rainfall in at least 75 years, with more than a year’s worth of precipitation in 24 hours. Life for many in the glitzy...
Paper is to news what vinyl is to music: an outdated medium decimated by its digital replacement. Except that vinyl records have finally found their niche, and sales are up again. Newspapers haven’t yet worked out how to deal with all the advertising money that has fled online, and are still in freefall. Compared to 20 years ago, there are now 3,000 fewer newspaper titles in the U.S. and 43,000 fewer newspaper journalists. Total newspaper circulation declined from more than 50 million in 2005 to...
Climate change is behind torrential downpours and unusual flooding in the normally arid Dubai.