Dubai Floods Due To Artificial Rain Or Climate Change? What Is UAE's Cloud Seeding Programme?

flights have been diverted schools shut and office goers are working from home Dubai has come to a standstill and the reason is surprising it's flooding in the UAE Yes you heard that right the desert city received a year worth of rainfall in a single day so what happened Dubai is usually very dry the city occasionally experiences less than 10 mm a year of rainfall on average but this time Dubai witnessed more than 142 mm of Rain Road houses and luxury malls have been flooded jets look like jumbo boats at the airport one person was even killed due to the rainfall even tankers were used to pump out water from the streets but that didn't work scientists state it was the heaviest rainfall since 1949 but what led to the heavy rainfall in Dubai the primary reason behind Heavy Rain is because of storm system weather experts state that the storm system traveling through the Arabian Peninsula and reaching Oman has caused this there's also climate change to be blamed Earth is heating up so much that the planet is sinking further and further in simple words warmer air can hold more moisture about 7% extra for every de CSI which can in turn increase the intensity of rain a recent study by scientific reports reveals that the annual rainfall could increase by 30% across UAE as the world continues to warm as per Dr fredrique Oto a climate science lecturer if humans continue to burn oil gas and cold the climate will continue to warm rainfall will continue to get heavier and people will continue to lose their lives in flood some even blame cloud seeding for the latest floods cloud seeding is nothing but an artificial process of creating rain this is done using aircraft to drop small particles like silver iodide into the clouds water vapor can then condense more easily into the rain this technique has been around for some time and UAE has been using it to reduce water shortage at the same time there is no evidence to confirm the same whether it was cloud seeding or climate change the UAE wasn't able to handle heavy rainfall although Dubai is heavily urbanized they have fewer trees to absorb the moisture even drainage systems were unable to withstand such heavy rains well Dubai isn't alone even Oman and bahin received heavy rainfall for more informative videos like this keep watching India today today news MO

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Published: Thu Apr 18 2024