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Apr 17, 2024 · Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24 hours, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seeding. So how unusual was the rainfall and what were the reasons behind the extreme downpours?
Apr 24, 2024 · Across UAE and Oman, 21 people lost their lives. The heavy rain of Tuesday April 16 was initially blamed on “cloud seeding”: a method of stimulating precipitation by injecting clouds with tiny ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Cloud seeding is generally deployed when conditions of wind, moisture and dust are insufficient to lead to rain. In the last week, forecasters had warned of a high flooding risk across the Gulf ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Cloud seeding is a method of increasing precipitation that has been around since the 1940s. It involves spraying a powder, such as silver iodide, into clouds from planes or rockets, or by burning ...
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 — a deluge of water that triggered the question: Was ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Flooding in Dubai after a year’s worth of rain falls in hours. Speculation was rife on social media, linking cloud seeding, which involves the manipulation of existing clouds to induce rain, to ...
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Apr 19, 2024 · The UAE's National Center of Meteorology launched the Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science to advance the technology, saying that for dryer regions across the world, cloud seeding "could ...
