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Heavy rainfall on Tuesday brought the desert city of Dubai to a standstill and flooded portions of its major highways and international airport.
Operations at the Dubai airport were suspended for 25 minutes in the afternoon before resuming. Cars drive through a flooded street during a rain storm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 16, 2024. Visuals shared on social media showed planes taxiing across the airport flooded with standing water. According to the Associated Press, which cited the meteorological data collected at Dubai International Airport, the city received a year and a half's worth of rain within 24 hours. The rains began late Monday, soaking the sands and roadways of Dubai with some 20 millimetres (0.79 inches) of rain. It further intensified on Tuesday and by the end of the day, more than 142 millimetres (5.59 inches) of rainfall had soaked Dubai. An average year sees 94.7 millimetres (3.73 inches) of rain at Dubai International Airport. The UAE government had issued warnings ahead of the heavy rains, urging people to stay at home and only leave “in cases of extreme necessity.” It later announced remote working until Wednesday for all federal employees. What caused the heavy rainfall in Dubai? According to CNN, the rain that plunged Dubai underwater is associated with a larger storm system traversing the Arabian Peninsula and moving across the Gulf of Oman. This same system is also bringing unusually wet weather to nearby Oman and south-eastern Iran. At least 18 people have died in recent days as the heavy rains caused flooding in Oman. "It is highly likely that the deadly and destructive rain in Oman and Dubai was made heavier by human-caused climate change," Otto, of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, told AFP. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that the heavy rains stemmed partly from cloud seeding. Cloud seeding a method to make rain by spraying clocks with chemical to make water drops more heavier to fall down to earth. It's called geo-engineering. The Blog Tags Widget will appear here on the published site.
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