Artist depiction of cloud seeding drones. Smart Cities World Forum. The United Arab Emirates have been hit particularly hard by this season’s sweltering heat, recording a 51.8°C this June (that ...

There are a few reasons for this. First: Even the most optimistic assessments of cloud seeding say that it can increase rainfall by a maximum of 25 percent annually.

Dubai is known for using planes to help prompt precipitation over the region. But experts say it did not play a role in this week's historic downpour. But experts say it did not play a role ...

Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24 hours, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seeding. So how unusual was the rainfall and what were the reasons behind the extreme downpours?

This technology didn’t cause Dubai’s floods, ... The downpour was a product of weather patterns that meteorological models predicted as much as a week earlier, not cloud seeding, ...

DUBAI has been forced to deny the horrific floods paralysing the city have been self-inflicted through their infamous cloud seeding operations. The glitzy city has come to a standstill as a years ...

Cloud seeding adds more of those particles to the air. Aircraft fly through existing clouds and inject the tiny particles, like silver iodide, with the goal of creating more water or ice droplets.

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 ...

A 'once in a generation' rainstorm flooded Dubai's international airport and submerged highways across the UAE - and expert meteorologists have responded to claims that cloud seeding was to blame ...

Dubai has seen historic flooding. The internet quickly blamed cloud seeding. Here's what to know about artificial rain and if it could come to Arizona.

Dubai is situated on the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is usually very dry. But while it receives less than 100mm (3.9in) a year of rainfall on average, it does experience occasional ...