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1 day ago · The record rains -- the heaviest in the UAE since records began 75 years ago -- flooded homes, roads and malls and forced Dubai airport to cancel more than 2,000 flights.
1 day ago · The UAE's drainage systems quickly became overwhelmed, flooding out neighborhoods, business districts and even portions of the 12-lane Sheikh Zayed Road highway running through Dubai. The state-run WAM news agency called the rain “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.”
1 day ago · The Emirati meteorological centre said it did not perform seeding operations during the floods. "Due to the excessive use of silver iodide to create artificial rain, Dubai saw its heaviest rainfall in a single day since meteorological records began in 1949," read a simplified Chinese post on Weibo on April 18, 2024.
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2 days ago · JBA, global leader in flood risk management, conducted an Extreme Value Analysis on rainfall data to estimate the return period of the event. On that basis, the observed daily rainfall of 168 mm in Dubai coast on April 16 suggests a 125-year rainfall event for Dubai City, while in the east of the UAE (Kalba), the 240 mm of rainfall suggests a ...
21 hours ago · Dubai, on the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was hit by record floods in mid-April. In a single day, it received a year’s worth of rainfall. This deluge resulted in 22 deaths and hundreds of millions in infrastructure damage. Schools across the UAE were closed for the remainder of the week, while Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates ...
1 day ago · The Emirati meteorological centre said it did not perform seeding operations during the floods. "Due to the excessive use of silver iodide to create artificial rain, Dubai saw its heaviest rainfall in a single day since meteorological records began in 1949," read a simplified Chinese post on Weibo on April 18, 2024.
5 days ago · One of the leading bosses of Emirates has described the floods that wreaked havoc across Dubai in April, stranding tens of thousands of the airline’s passengers, as like ‘being under attack’, admitting that the Persian Gulf carrier will have to be more ‘dynamic’ when dealing with extreme weather events in the future.
