A reckless experiment in Earth’s atmosphere resulted in the flooding of a desert metropolis. This was the story last week when more than a year’s worth of rain fell in one day in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the driest regions in the world. Desert cities such as Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)… Read More »
Record floods bring chaos to Dubai – Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images In the summer of 2017, a delegation of visitors from the United Arab Emirates flew to the Berkshire town of Reading. They had come not for a sightseeing tour but to explore how scientists at the university were making progress on the small matter… Read More »
Cloud seeding involves spraying salt into incoming storm clouds to increase precipitation. Photos show how the UAE, US and other countries have been seeding clouds for decades. Historic floods in Dubai were not caused by cloud spreading, but human climate impacts play a role. As the desert city of Dubai was flooded on Monday, onlookers… Read More »
Meteorologists say that as clouds spread, rain can fall, but it doesn’t actually produce downpours or flooding; At least it’s not like the one that drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. Even though cloud seeding is decades old, it is still controversial in the weather community, largely because it has been difficult to… Read More »
IIn a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever it rains, they get it. United Arab Emirates officials will often even try to make it rain, as they did earlier this week when the National Meteorological Center sent planes to inject chemicals into clouds to produce downpours. But this time they got… Read More »