The UAE has used cloud seeding to increase rainfall since the early 1990s. READ MORE:On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates was hit with a year and a half of rain in a single day, leaving much of Dubai underwater.
So, as Dubai faces its most severe rain on record MailOnline takes a step-by-step look at how the controversial technique works. In nature, clouds produce rain or snow when water vapour forms around natural nuclei like bacteria or dust. Dr Thomas said: 'Cloud seeding acts on step two. Chemicals are dispersed in the upper atmosphere to act as CCNs, thus kickstarting the rain formation process.'
The UAE's Rain Enhancement Program said: 'The NCM has established a national network of 86 automatic weather stations for weather monitoring, six weather radars covering the entire UAE, and one upper air station.'Mark Newman, deputy chief pilot at NCMS, previously told MailOnline: 'As soon as they see some convective cloud formations, they launch us on a flight to investigate.
In some cases, rather than flying planes into clouds, seeding can also be done by firing seeding missiles from the ground. Ahmed Habib, a specialist meteorologist, initially told Bloomberg that at least seven seeding planes from Al Ain airport between Sunday and Monday.
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