UAE government unit denies cloud seeding took place before Dubai floods
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UAE government says cloud seeding didn’t take place before Dubai floods
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The National Center of Meteorology, a government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, said it had not carried out the weather modification technique in the run-up to the heavy storms that caused flooding in places like Dubai. The organization told CNBC that it did not dispatch pilots for seeding operations before or during the storm that struck the UAE on Tuesday. Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director general of the NCM, said the...
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What is cloud seeding? Did cloud seeding make the Dubai flooding worse?
The UAE has been using cloud seeding since the 1990s to increase rainfall. Some are wondering if it is behind the historic flooding that hit Dubai.
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Dubai rains: All you need to know about cloud seeding that may have caused flooding in UAE
The arid nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) received the "heaviest rain ever" on Tuesday, leading to flooding in Dubai.The rain was called “a historic weather event” by the state-run WAM news agency, surpassing "anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman also received rainfall on Tuesday.The widespread rainwitnessed across the UAE is believed to have been caused by “cloud seeding”, among other factors. Emirates' National Center for...