Commentary: Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding

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Cloud seeding could not have built a huge storm system the size of France, says this University of Oxford climate scientist.

People walk through flood water caused by heavy rains, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Apr 17, 2024. OXFORD, England: Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste - the air was thick with it.

Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwater covering a major road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Apr 17, 2024. It is therefore necessary to fly a lot of missions and to measure, but not seed, half of them thereby creating a data set for the experiment itself and the control . What normally keeps the old deserts, such as those of the Arabian Peninsula, so very dry is persistent and intense sinking of air - the very opposite of what is required for rain. The sinking air is bone dry, having come from the cold, top of the atmosphere, and is compressed and warmed as it descends. It arrives near the surface like a hairdryer.

 

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