What is behind the record downpour? | DW News
What is behind the record downpour? | DW News
One of the world’s busiest travel hubs — Dubai International Airport — has partially resumed operations after heavy flooding forced it to close on Wednesday. The standstill came after the United Arab Emirates was hit by a record breaking storm. More rain fell in a 24 hour period than ever before. At least one person was killed and many…
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I’ll give him the glasses (still hideous) 🙄 but that beard is unforgivable.
Laiers, 75 years ago was worse rainy weather but it didn't affect anything. So global changes have nothing to do with it.
Just use of cloud seeding uses so result was fully finely saw 😂😂😂dubayi drinking water much and more 😂
So they did this to themselves
The CLIMATE is always changing, sometimes drastically. How many ice ages has the earth experienced? How many eras similar to the Jurassic period when dinosaurs thrived? Greenland was once green with lush vegetation!
This powerful rainfall is natures fury and not cloud seeding
Dubai met office
Oh Please
Climate change Ke…
They were creating rain
Why do you always want to insert Global Warming into everything…
Flood not due to climate change or mount of rainfall but the absence of drainage system. Poor city planning indeed!
THSI IS WHAT YOU GET FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AND HVING THEM IN YOUR COUNTRY
Lack of drainage doesn't help either. Last year when i was in Bahrain; it rained a little bit, and there was floor here and here. I looked closer for drainages and gutters, they were non-existent.
😂😂😂 karma
Experts like Al Gore or Greta? No one can explain why climate changes, its been happening for hundreds of years, how many of these "experts" stopped flying, using plastics, using disposable diapers , toothpaste, cars that use gasoline, clothes not made in China?
What a way to pass the buck, just blame everything to "climate change", from earth quake, rain, to volcano eruptions, the "central planners" will never admit their own incompetence.
blah blah blah white noise…
Enough with your climate change.
6 degree can change the world….JUST 6 degree! go watch that documentary..it will come or in progress ALIVE!!
sorry i took a huge piss,
@0:38: No, those are not cars, those are LandCruisers, trucks, etc.
Why did you not build the drainage?
Because we dont waste money underground.
Man's quest for massive development is the cause of climate change. You cannot have you your cake and eat it at the same time. Gain some, lose some.
CLOUD SEEDING GONE WRONG?
Experts have also addressed the widespread debate over whether the existing rainfall event was inadvertently exacerbated by artificial cloud seeding. This is a scientific method of modifying the weather by dispersing large salt particles into convective clouds through an aircraft to increase the overall precipitation.
The UAE’s National Centre of Meteorology was one of the first in the Arabian Gulf region to use cloud seeding and has been using it for more than a decade to incrementally increase rainfall. This is done using a private airplane supplied by special salt flares manufactured to fit with the nature of the physical and chemical properties of the clouds that form in the UAE.
According to Professor Sachchida Nand Tripathi, from the department of civil engineering at IIT Kanpur, who has also been associated with cloud seeding experiments in India, it is highly unlikely that the rainfall was triggered by such an exercise. One of the reasons is that artificial seeding is done during the early stages of cloud development. But if a storm is well-developed, seeding is usually not recommended.
“Globally, there is a general consensus among scientific agencies that cloud seeding can bring about a 15 to 25% increase in rainfall. So if we go by this data, it would have still rained heavily in Dubai. So, it is highly unlikely that the event could be attributed to seeding,” said Prof Tripathi.
“Moreover, the objective of artificial seeding is to manually alter the natural development of the cloud to enhance precipitation. Many times we see in arid and semi-arid regions that clouds form, but they do not lead to enough rain, so this technology can be helpful.”
It seems Dubai never thought about this situation and got caught in extreme weather. It also shows the real picture of Dubai.
That’s alright because Indian labours can clean it up in 2 days each day given a salary of $5 for 14 hours work . If it’s not too much .
KARMA !!!!!!!!!!
The operations must have stopped prior to the storm as predicted earlier, then the 1000's of stranded passengers would hv not suffered and avoided airline costs, hope someone learn out of this lesson learnt!
That Alien from Mumbai totally looks crazy!
"We're still thinking how to make this about man made climate change and use it to push an agenda"
This what happens when Dubai becomes too rich
Where is the waterreservoir to store this abundance of water ? Nature is not a joke
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WE. ARE. RICH. 🏊
Climate change is a change of climate due to man made causes such as government experiments
they pray to the wrong God- only Jesus is a reall God
Those glasses…. ! I want them
These rains could easily fill the ground water aquifers unfortunately the locals are a dumb lot 😂
For once a DW interviews a true expert, thank you Professor Raghu, rather than the usual un-PC hippies talking utter nonsense 😂
Honestly DW, you got class English speakers rather than the pigeon German English speakers doing interviews….. now, but still a long way to match BBC which unfortunately reports the opposite of the truth.
In this instance there may not beem cloud seeding but cloud seeding in general may have contributed to the local climate change.
Dubai’s poor drainage system is to blame for this catastrophe not the Rain here in United States we always have cloudburst and no flooding like that
Nobody is talking about the poorest draining system Dubai failed badly
How about actually building drainage system as part of their construction planning.
At least they saved the kitty.
God's judgments, not climate change.
Yes … but those glasses also deserve an explanation
they already was blessed with oil.. now they have water too…. this is more of a blessings .. and Dubai is advance in its water system for sure they will build drainage and turn this into a big dam…
UAE has been cloud seeding for a while now. Stop messing with the weather and this won't happen.
This is what happens when people like Bill Gates messes with the weather.