Because forest fires cause their own weather. Severe thermals taking that heat upwards and drawing fresh air (fuel) in at the surface.
They really should focus on making artificial lakes, I think.
The water never flows far in the hydrocycle and, keep making the lakes and eventually I think they would stay.
I have heard of this being done before in farming communities. Maybe not with this same technology, but I’m sure that I’ve heard of it, and have wondered why aren’t more communities doing it in drought situations.
Cloud seeding.
Weird.
I was just thinking about Dubai a couple of hours ago and “if you imagine it we can do it” or whatever they claimed. I was thinking of the indoor skiing.
And Allah sends down rain from the skies, and gives therewith life to the earth after its death: verily in this is a Sign for those who listen.Oh? So rain can come down from the sky without Allah’s specific intervention?
— Surah 16:65
Innovative idea, but Dubai is working with clear skies and a relatively uniform color setting. Dark colored objects have lots of thermal uprisings (it sucks flying a small plane in the summer over a mix of forest and fields). Deserts are brown.
The thermal well of a major fire is really quite scary if you ever get to see one on the lines. I’m not interested in seeing one up close again.
Think of the protests and lawsuits.
All I saw was rain, I did not see a drone making it rain. So I am skeptical of this story.
Arabs use water like other cultures use hi-dollar art or jewelry: as ostentation. That’s because putting your water on display necessarily means absorbing the cost of the evaporative losses, which in that corner of the world is extreme.
And compared to say, Baghdad, lakes around Dubai would would be particularly wasteful because it’s coastal. Odds are 50/50 that the moisture that’s evaporating from your lakes would be blown straight out to sea, where it would do no one any good, not even the fishes. Not much ROI there.
The chief advantage of this process is that they’re reaping benefits from water they didn’t spend a cent on gaining control over. Or processing. Or transporting. Or storing. It was just moisture that happened to be passing by in the clouds, and they shocked it out of the sky without losing use of a single ounce of water they’ve spent so dearly to make potable. And coastal areas in Arabia are different from the interior in that they have abundant moisture in the air, even in the hottest months.