Cloud seeding

(Bloomberg) -- Torrential rains across the United Arab Emirates prompted flight cancellations, forced schools to shut and brought traffic to a standstill.

Heavy rains cause flooding in UAE, with record downpour in Al Ain. Cloud seeding efforts may have played a role.

Dubai rain: Life came to a standstill in Dubai, when heavy rains, which started late on Monday, lashed the region, causing a flood-like situation, ...

Dubai was submerged after it witnesses a year and a half's worth of rainfall on Tuesday. After the hottest and driest region on Earth drowned in rain within ...

The National Center of Meteorology dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to tap into the convective cloud formations.

By the end of Tuesday, more than 5.59 inches of rainfall had soaked Dubai over 24 hours. An average year sees 3.73 inches of rain at Dubai International ...

After record rainfall—most recently in Dubai—weather modification programs have come under public scrutiny. Here's what experts have to say.

The arid nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) received "heaviest rain ever" on Tuesday, leading to flooding in Dubai. The rain was called “a historic ...

Dubai, recognised as a global hub for tourism attracting millions of visitors each year, was at a standstill after the torrential rains.

Professor Maarten Ambaum, a meteorologist at the University of Reading who has studied rainfall patterns in the Gulf region, said: “This was an extremely ...

(Bloomberg) -- Humans started using chemicals to supercharge clouds' capacity to release rain and snow decades ago, but the technology is gaining traction ...

An abandoned ambulance is submerged in floodwater on a highway Wednesday following torrential rain in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/ ...

The heaviest rain ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates flooded portions of major highways and Dubai's international airport in a matter of hours ...

Heavy rains in Dubai have prompted theories that “cloud seeding” may be to blame—but many experts are skeptical.

Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24 hours, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seeding. So how unusual was the rainfall and what ...

Several cars submerged in water from the flooding in Dubai. Intense rain in the United Arab Emirates has sparked another conversation about the link between ...

Huge downpours which caused widespread disruption in the United Arab Emirates city have been attributed to a process that encourages rainfall - here we take ...

Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the heavy rains may have been ...

Questions have swirled online about the process being behind the historic rainfall – but experts say it's not the real culprit.

Cloud seeding has been named by some media reports as a possible contributor to record-setting rain and flooding in Dubai, U.A.E. Here's a closer look at ...

Chaos engulfed the UAE after its biggest city Dubai was inundated with water in the wake of record rainfall.

Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding can boost rain and snowfall, but the World Meteorological Organization warns we don't know enough about it yet.

storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped ...

Dubai don welcome record breaking floods for di past 24 hours, wey dey cause misleading speculation to start dey spread about cloud seeding.

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood—at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, ...