Put simply: warmer air can hold more moisture - about 7% extra for every degree Celsius - which can in turn increase the intensity of rain.
In the hours that followed the floods, some social media users were quick to wrongly attribute the extreme weather solely to recent cloud seeding operations in the country.
Earlier reports by Bloomberg suggested cloud seeding planes were deployed on Sunday and Monday, but not on Tuesday, when the flooding occurred.
“Ahead of the event, computer models (that don’t factor in potential cloud seeding effects) were already predicting well over a year’s worth of rain to fall in around 24 hours,” he said.
Cloud seeding missions in Emirati territory are run by the National Center of Meteorology (NCM), a government task force.
Preventing heavy rainfall turning into deadly floods requires robust defences to deal with sudden intense downfalls.
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Put simply: warmer air can hold more moisture - about 7% extra for every degree Celsius - which can in turn increase the intensity of rain.
In the hours that followed the floods, some social media users were quick to wrongly attribute the extreme weather solely to recent cloud seeding operations in the country.
Earlier reports by Bloomberg suggested cloud seeding planes were deployed on Sunday and Monday, but not on Tuesday, when the flooding occurred.
“Ahead of the event, computer models (that don’t factor in potential cloud seeding effects) were already predicting well over a year’s worth of rain to fall in around 24 hours,” he said.
Cloud seeding missions in Emirati territory are run by the National Center of Meteorology (NCM), a government task force.
Preventing heavy rainfall turning into deadly floods requires robust defences to deal with sudden intense downfalls.
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