The UAE’s cloud seeding operations worsened the Dubai flash floods according to this source. Would-be climate savers with grandiose schemes can take note.
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Summary:
— The United Arab Emirates experienced torrential rainfall and severe flash floods on Tuesday.
— The flooding was worsened by the UAE’s cloud seeding practice to address water scarcity.
— The weather modification method involves getting clouds to drop more precipitation.
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Torrential rainfall pummeled the United Arab Emirates this week, resulting in flash floods that have caused air travel delays, closed schools, and deluged homes, says Business Insider.
Dubai International Airport — recently named the most luxurious airport in the world — was diverting planes as of Tuesday evening until the weather conditions improved, according to a statement.
Videos on social media appeared to show a heavily flooded tarmac, with large passenger airplanes taxiing through several feet of water.
The airport did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider about the videos.
Dubai got over 4 inches of rain by Tuesday evening, around the amount it typically gets in an entire year, CNN reported, citing United Nations data.
The UAE was playing rainmaker by cloud seeding
While images of extreme flooding can show the consequences of the climate crisis, this particular event was worsened by a direct attempt to play rainmaker — literally.
To address water scarcity in the typically dry country, the UAE started using a practice referred to as cloud seeding in the 90s and early 2000s.
Cloud seeding is a method designed to increase the amount of water that falls from a cloud. It involves identifying suitable clouds and then using aircraft or ground-based generators to introduce a chemical agent that facilitates the production of snowflakes.
Full article here.
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Image: Sharjah’s King Abdul Aziz Street [credit: BBC News]
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Soon, someone will blame the Climate Change™ …
Ah but! - the seed was cheap and we didn’t believe in the theory or science anymore, so we chucked it out !
Refer to our Bible about sowing Seed.
So what happened to all the Sand? washed away to pollute the lovely Millionaire Beaches ? Thought the Water would have just soaked straight in? Parched compacted soil is something else.
Flooding like this rather common in Dubai. First off the infrastructure doesn’t exist to deal with this. It’s was a porous desert, now it’s a concrete jungle.
cloud seeding sorties had been carried out on Monday and Tuesday, however these are usually carried out along the peripheral edges of main storm centres. Small quantities of silver iodide are fired into a strong updraft within suitable clouds. The updraft then distributes these cloud condensation nuclei. This will hopefully assist in the formation of water droplets and precipitation. It certainly doesn’t create additional moisture, it simply helps induce precipitation from a cloud that may or may not precipitate before entrainment with dryer air and dissipation.
the strength of the steering winds is also important, with slow moving systems, the more rain falls in the same place.
I was involved in a similar seeding operations for several years, where we seeded clouds along the edge of the ITCZ. Concentrating on reservoir/dam/lake catchment areas. A practice that was on occasions not appreciated by local farmers believing we forced a cloud to rain before passing over their farm, depriving them of the rain. It’s always been a contentious issue.
it is also carried out to suppress hail, by over seeding to restrict growth of hail stones.
Is the UAE Really Making It Rain by Seeding Clouds? – July 2021
Cloud seeding is a form of geoengineering that has long garnered controversy for its so far dubious efficacy.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dx4j/is-the-uae-really-making-it-rain-by-seeding-clouds
Has a link to a UAE YouTube channel with videos of heavy rain if anyone is interested.
‘Carnage’ at Dubai airport as UAE hit by ‘heaviest rainfall in 75 years’
Wednesday 17 April 2024
The United Arab Emirates sees over 14cm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year-and-a-half, as rain floods motorways and homes, causes schools to stay shut and forces people to work from home as flights are affected. There are claims cloud seeding is responsible.
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The heavy thunderstorms were “a historic weather event” that surpassed anything seen since records began in 1949, the state-run WAM news agency said.
https://news.sky.com/story/carnage-at-dubai-airport-as-uae-hit-by-heaviest-rainfall-in-75-years-13116978
Dubai airport gripped by major disruption as unprecedented rains continue to batter Gulf
Published 2 hours ago
Flash floods have now killed 20 people in Oman and one in the UAE. Some inbound flights have resumed on Thursday, but on the whole Dubai international airport, a major travel hub, is barely functional.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68843049
Disastrous.
eh? NOT ! - according to this morning’s webcams. Not even clouds of dust to be seen YESTERDAY - where did all the dirty floodwaters go to? NO Mud, no dust, no water – Looks like Business as usual - or what are the Webcams showing ? ( or the MSM ) AI Generated videos perhaps……
In my lunchtime Mail
This week’s heavy rainfall in the UAE
https://earthsky.org/space/ “Here was the scene this morning along Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The UAE is attempting to dry out today after heavy rainfall this week. The most rain was received in Al Ain, a city bordering Oman: 10 inches (254 mm) of rainfall in a 24-hour period. It was the most in a 24-hour period since records started in 1949. Image via AP/ Christopher Pike. Did cloud seeding cause the flood? This article from Reuters, from 5 hours ago, says no. ”!”
Meteorologist warns of ‘weather wars’ between countries after Dubai floods were blamed on ‘cloud seeding’ – with ‘catastrophic’ consequences
Johan Jaques, a senior meteorologist at environmental technology company KISTERS, warned there could be ‘unintended consequences’ to using the relatively young technology, potentially leading to ‘diplomatic instability’.
‘Any time we interfere with natural precipitation patterns, we set off a chain of events that we have little control over,’ he said.
‘Interference with the weather also raises all kinds of ethical questions, as changing the weather in one country could lead to perhaps unintended yet catastrophic impacts in another. After all, the weather does not recognise international borders.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327073/meteorologist-weather-warning-dubai-floods-cloud-seeding.html
Seeding in Dubai, deaths in Oman 👎
Avoch man, don’t be furthering that cause! Bad enough when you desire to improve your hill land by Draining but lower down, you have some obstructive lethargic landowners who don’t want to accept your water. …..