The heavy rains that flooded Dubai lead to questions about what triggered a rainfall described by the government as the “heaviest” in the last 75 years. 142 millimeters of rain fell on the United Arab Emirates city, causing flooding on the main roads and the international airport. Experts from the Emirati meteorological service (NCM) underline how the practice of “cloud seeding” could have exacerbated the weather conditions in the metropolis which hosted Cop28 last December.
To combat the chronic drought that afflicts the Persian Gulf area, for decades the United Arab Emirates has been resorting to the “cloud seeding” technique, the stimulation of artificial rain through the seeding of clouds. Substances such as silver iodide, potassium iodide and liquid propane are dispersed into the atmosphere providing nuclei that favor the onset of precipitation.
As Ahmed Habib, a specialist meteorologist at the Ncm, explains in an interview with the US agency Bloomberg, “in the two days before the flood the seeding planes carried out seven missions”. According to some experts, this practice may have contributed to exacerbating the precipitation which in just over 24 hours brought a quantity of rain corresponding to the average of a year and a half.
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