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Dubai Flood 2024
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- United Arab Emirates witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years.
- Some areas recording more than 250 mm (around 10 inches) of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours.
- It was the largest ever in a 24-hour period since records started in 1949.
- Experts and officials have contradicted the speculations that cloud seeding caused the rainfall.
- Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification process that normally tries to increase the rain or snow.
- Cloud seeding uses planes and ground-based cannons to shoot particles into clouds making more nuclei, attracting moisture.
- Once enough droplets merge, they become heavy and fall to Earth as rain or snow.
- Silver iodide can potentially serve the same function.
- Other substances, such as dry ice, may also be used for similar purposes.
- The method can’t create water from a clear sky – particles must be shot into a cloud that already holds moisture to get it to fall, or to fall more than it otherwise would naturally.
- About 50 countries including the US, China, Australia, UAE, Germany, India, Malaysia, Russia and Mexico employ cloud seeding.
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