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No, cloud-seeding didn’t drench Dubai

No, cloud-seeding didn’t drench Dubai

Howling winds, a flood from the heavens and the world's biggest airport for international travel waist deep in water. What happened to Dubai? Between Monday night and Tuesday evening it received 18 months' worth of rain in a storm that submerged whole traffic jams and hurled sofas off balconies. One man was reported killed when his car was swept away. Bloomberg was first with a piece on cloud-seeding, carefully avoiding attributing the rainfall to the practice of spraying powdered silver iodide (or equivalent) into rain clouds, while noting that UAE authorities have been seeding regularly since 2002 and that the National Center for Meteorology seeded clouds on Sunday and Monday (but not Tuesday). Seeding does work, patchily.


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