Experts respond to claims biblical flooding in Dubai caused by 'cloud seeding'

The United Arab Emirates is attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the desert nation that left at least one person dead.

One reason for the acute rain in the UAE may have been “cloud seeding”, in which small planes flown by the government go through clouds burning special salt flares. Those flares can increase precipitation. Professor Suzanne Gray, Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, said: "Satellite imagery suggests the flooding and rainstorms Dubai were caused by something called a mesoscale convective system. Mesoscale convective systems are what we get when lots of individual thunderstorms amalgamate to form a single large high-level cloud shield, typically hundreds of kilometres across, together with a large region of heavy rainfall.

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