Posted on 04/17/2024 8:28:02 AM PDT by dennisw
Was Dubai's apocalyptic storm SELF-INFLICTED? Claims UAE 'flew cloud-seeding flights - which increase rainfall - the day before' 18 months' rain fell in 24 hours causing chaos that closed airport and sparked rush to flee the country
The United Arab Emirates is today attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the desert nation caused utter chaos - but there are suspicions the horrific flooding in Dubai and elsewhere may have been self-inflicted.
The typically scorching UAE heavily relies on cloud-seeding - a technique which sees aircraft fire salt flares into clouds to speed up condensation and induce rainfall - to provide its groundwater.
Flight-tracking data analysed by the Associated Press showed one aircraft affiliated with the UAE's cloud-seeding efforts flew around the country on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Ahmed Habib, a meteorologist at the UAE's National Centre for Meteorology (NCM), told Bloomberg several cloud-seeding sorties were flown in the days before the unprecedented rainfall hit.
As speculation over the cloud-seeding grew, the NCM later denied in comments to CNBC that the operation had taken place on Tuesday in the hours before the storm - but confirmed the operation was performed on Sunday and Monday.
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Sound like they should have spend some of their mega petro dollars on designing a drainage system when building their urban sprawl. Rain on sand produces mud and dries quickly. Rain on concrete accumulates, but the concept of “too much water” may be hard for tradition bound dessert dwellers to grasp.
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Seeding can increase the size of a storm.
Condensation is exothermic and exothermic reactions give off heat energy. Seeding the air to increase condensation increases the amount of energy in one location which then pulls from other locations, enhancing the size and potential of a storm.
It’s not nice to fool [with] Mother Nature.
Would love to see the Risk Mitigation plan the UAE created in the event something like this happened.
Don't go confusing people with facts. The additional rainfall brought about by cloudseeding is small at best, and nonexistent at worst. In an area with lots of clouds, and little rainfall, an extended cloudseeding program may increase annual rainfall by 1"-2". And it may not.
So if this cloud seeding works, then they could regreen the sahara!
Or get some grass in Oz. (Australia)
“In an area with lots of clouds, and little rainfall, an extended cloudseeding program may increase annual rainfall by 1”-2”.”
And if conditions are right, may change a normal but heavy rainfall into an historic cloudburst.
Yah, some places just cannot handle change of any sort. I used to live in Houston, Tx. Got storms regularly. One summer we got two tropical storms — those are still-born hurricanes. Little wind.
1st one dumped about 3 feet in 36 hours. 2nd, about ten days later did ~ 2feet in 24 hours.
Yes, that is FEET, not inches!
Even the alligators in the creeks drowned.
Are you still under the impression that governments function to make our lives better?
No, these tools will be used to destroy, starve, kill and manipulate the people into being more dependent on the government.
Yes, condensation is exothermic, but you way overestimate the amount of heat released, where in the atmosphere the heat is released, and its effects on water evaporation at the surface necessary to form clouds.
Cloud seeding works by providing a nucleation point for a water droplet to form, but the initial water vapor must be present. The effects are local to where the seeding is done, and is only successful if the amount of moisture in the cloud is almost enough for it to rain naturally.
Look at the radar again, and tell me that a storm nearly the size of the Arabian Peninsula was caused by cloud seeding.
Do yo have a source for that?
I will restrict my statement that cloudseeding does not cause heavy rainfall to subtropical areas, which includes both South Texas, and Dubai.
Good reminder. Thanks.
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