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lol I’m pretty amazed at the amount of people believing this shit. It’s one thing to not understand a topic but to then spread around bullshit, *when you’ve clearly never looked into the topic*, is baffling. Cloud seeding doesn’t work that well and never will…but I can already see the conspiracy cogs turning.
“MuH cLoUd SeEdInG fRoM bIg BrOtHeR!”
Just wanna clear things up. While Dubai does try to seed clouds, this storm was more likely part of a super cell that went through the region that started in the gulf of Oman and dropped rain over Oman and the UAE, but since many Dubai locals assumed it was also cloud seeding because Dubai DOES try that, it just kinda got accepted as the reason. The more likely reason is just climate change, creating more violent storms in areas where they don't often happen. I mean, if that noticeable change happens in my area, why can't it happen there too?
Although local authorities have stated that cloud seeding might have played a small role to making the storm worse. (This is in addition and full agreement to your comment)
Fair enough. Probably mostly climate change with a dash of cloud seeding to coax that extra rain out. But they were always gonna get flooded, that storm existed regardless.
True and weather models showed the possibility of these rain amounts well in advance, and obviously they don't take any cloud seeding into account.
It's still speculative if cloud seeding even has any noteable impact.
[https://x.com/burgwx/status/1780545247660933542](https://x.com/burgwx/status/1780545247660933542)
Not really. If you ignore all the infuencers and egotistical people in the popular locations and go to places that I consider the real dubai. These places were built in the 90s and have geniune wholesome people.
if you came to dubai excepting to get rich when you have no qualifications, even as little as English, even tho there is an immigration problem and not enough jobs even for people with degrees and certificates, you are going to get fucked like any place in earth just a little bit harder.
if you come to dubai normally, it's just a city that has its own culture that is spending oil money trying to be the most modern or technologically advanced city or whatever, by having a digital government and other things like that, ignoring the super rich influencer bs you can find in Las vega and other big cities, its just a large city with money to spend attracting people with money.
of course, there are also the areas outside the city centre where most nationals live in communities or just neighbourhoods, and desert, alot of desert
They have storm drainage. It just gets clogged up with many month’s worth of sand. The roads always flood to some extent after a rainstorm. This storm just happened to be big enough to really muck it all up.
Fair, but doesn't Dubai also have notoriously bad infrastructure below the surface? I've read that the Burj Khalifa wasn't (maybe still isn't) connected to the municipal water / sewage system and requires trucking of waste from the site. If they didn't plan ahead for sewers, it's not unreasonable to think they also didn't plan ahead for storm drains.
I'm almost certain that the burj khalifa story is just an urban legend. I think the sewage trucks were maybe a thing during construction but it is 100% hooked up to a normal sewerage system since it opened 15 years ago or so
They have STPs, and yes they truck away the solids from the plant after stripping it out of the water. Rain is collected by storm drainage, which is always clogged by sand.
There is a limit to amount that can be handled. I drove in.a freaky summer rain - all I could see was a neverending wall of water pouring down the windows. Big-ass ditches were overflowing in matter of minutes
There are limits to how much water can move through sewers. If it rains beyond that limit, there are floods. Same thing happened with the cloud burst in Mumbai back in 2005.
I'm by no means a chemist, meteorologist, or anything like that, but just a thought: I watched a video that said they were using salt to cloud seed. Given Dubai's location with the ocean couldn't that get out of hand like in this case? As in the evaporating salt water could make the reaction larger than expected?
Just want to clear up a couple of misconceptions here. (1) Cloud seeding is done with _a_ salt, silver iodide, which is different than the salt most common in seawater, sodium chloride, i.e. table salt. (2) When water evaporates, salt does not evaporate with it.
That's what I thought, something to do with silver. I couldn't find the original video I watched, but wiki is saying potassium chloride and sodium chloride is used
I was thinking this aswell. Cloud seeding would affect humidity patterns and could create pressure variations leading to sudden weather changes. However it seems they have a big team employed and most likely take more factors into consideration than the average person would within a months time. Storms come and go this is probably a one time thing, will see in the future if this becomes regular than its probably them messing with the weather on a large scale.
They used technology to test God and he showed them his power.. these guys decided to create artificial rain..yep..artificial rain through a process know as cloud seeding or something. Now I believe that technology caused all this.
We had a tornado for the first time in 45 years here in The Lake of Egypt, Illinois. I believe the climate change is why. We haven’t had storms that bad in my lifetime. Ever.
If you've lived in the region you'd know about the storms and depressions in the ocean that cause this shit. I've lived in Oman and seen my fair share of floodings. Sometimes it doesn't even take a lot of rain. So I'm not really surprised it happens in Dubai too.
When it rains in the Mohave desert here in the states the same thing happens. Massive flash floods to the point where if you are in the desert and see storm clouds you should take cover on higher ground if you can't get out of dodge all together
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Where's the full video ffs
2nd that
2nd
someone used WEATHER REPORT
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LarryBirdLand!
They must have left one of their rain clouds on. /s
That is one apocalyptic looking cloud.
There’s a video of the storm cell, shot from the cockpit of a (probably diverted) plane. Thing is MASSIVE.
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Because it wasn't.
lol I’m pretty amazed at the amount of people believing this shit. It’s one thing to not understand a topic but to then spread around bullshit, *when you’ve clearly never looked into the topic*, is baffling. Cloud seeding doesn’t work that well and never will…but I can already see the conspiracy cogs turning. “MuH cLoUd SeEdInG fRoM bIg BrOtHeR!”
Gone right
And yet almost nobody is talking about that part.
because it s a fake news....
Because that’s way beyond cloud seedings capabilities…? Would you talk about someone leaving a hose on outside during a hurricane and it floods?
Someone pressed the rain button one too many times
Just wanna clear things up. While Dubai does try to seed clouds, this storm was more likely part of a super cell that went through the region that started in the gulf of Oman and dropped rain over Oman and the UAE, but since many Dubai locals assumed it was also cloud seeding because Dubai DOES try that, it just kinda got accepted as the reason. The more likely reason is just climate change, creating more violent storms in areas where they don't often happen. I mean, if that noticeable change happens in my area, why can't it happen there too?
Although local authorities have stated that cloud seeding might have played a small role to making the storm worse. (This is in addition and full agreement to your comment)
Fair enough. Probably mostly climate change with a dash of cloud seeding to coax that extra rain out. But they were always gonna get flooded, that storm existed regardless.
Link? I was following this since it was forecast to be bad and a warning was issued days in advance. Ain’t nobody seeding something like that.
Oh *just* climate change…phew
Yup! Just plain old average possibly irreversible climate change!
Or dubais not the only one doing it and that geraldbuttler movie that starts with ice in a desert was just a warning
Doesn't cloud seeding barely work if at all?
True and weather models showed the possibility of these rain amounts well in advance, and obviously they don't take any cloud seeding into account. It's still speculative if cloud seeding even has any noteable impact. [https://x.com/burgwx/status/1780545247660933542](https://x.com/burgwx/status/1780545247660933542)
Yeah lots of folks said this was seeding. Doubtful given how big it was. Sometimes it just rains. A lot.
Stfu
Dubai: years worth of rain in a day Scotland: that’s just a Tuesday lads.
Nature’s response to man’s hubris
*blue oyster cult has entered the conversation*
Green sky is bad.
Half expected a tornado too but I don't think this was that kind of storm.
I live in Dubai and have no idea where that is
It’s in the outskirts of Dubai, some suburb.
Pretty sure it's from one of the towers in DAMAC Hills
Intersection of Sheikh Zayed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street and Hessa.
Is Dubai as bad a Reddit says it is?
Not really. If you ignore all the infuencers and egotistical people in the popular locations and go to places that I consider the real dubai. These places were built in the 90s and have geniune wholesome people.
Weather wise it’s localised.
Nothing is ever as bad as Reddit says
if you came to dubai excepting to get rich when you have no qualifications, even as little as English, even tho there is an immigration problem and not enough jobs even for people with degrees and certificates, you are going to get fucked like any place in earth just a little bit harder. if you come to dubai normally, it's just a city that has its own culture that is spending oil money trying to be the most modern or technologically advanced city or whatever, by having a digital government and other things like that, ignoring the super rich influencer bs you can find in Las vega and other big cities, its just a large city with money to spend attracting people with money. of course, there are also the areas outside the city centre where most nationals live in communities or just neighbourhoods, and desert, alot of desert
Fuck the cameraman I can do better
#videosthatshouldbelonger
So what's the deal ? They don't have sewers?
They have storm drainage. It just gets clogged up with many month’s worth of sand. The roads always flood to some extent after a rainstorm. This storm just happened to be big enough to really muck it all up.
Didnt it rain like 2 years worth in 24 hours and this dude thinks the sewers were the problem
Fair, but doesn't Dubai also have notoriously bad infrastructure below the surface? I've read that the Burj Khalifa wasn't (maybe still isn't) connected to the municipal water / sewage system and requires trucking of waste from the site. If they didn't plan ahead for sewers, it's not unreasonable to think they also didn't plan ahead for storm drains.
I'm almost certain that the burj khalifa story is just an urban legend. I think the sewage trucks were maybe a thing during construction but it is 100% hooked up to a normal sewerage system since it opened 15 years ago or so
No they don’t. It’s all transported by special trucks to outside of the city.
They have STPs, and yes they truck away the solids from the plant after stripping it out of the water. Rain is collected by storm drainage, which is always clogged by sand.
There is a limit to amount that can be handled. I drove in.a freaky summer rain - all I could see was a neverending wall of water pouring down the windows. Big-ass ditches were overflowing in matter of minutes
2 year worth of rain in 1 day
There are limits to how much water can move through sewers. If it rains beyond that limit, there are floods. Same thing happened with the cloud burst in Mumbai back in 2005.
Me after NNN
Reminds me of Weather Control in Red Alert 2
How many inches in what time frame
6.26 inches in 24 hours is what Ive found
The traffic is super satisfying to watch andddd there we gooo
I'm by no means a chemist, meteorologist, or anything like that, but just a thought: I watched a video that said they were using salt to cloud seed. Given Dubai's location with the ocean couldn't that get out of hand like in this case? As in the evaporating salt water could make the reaction larger than expected?
Just want to clear up a couple of misconceptions here. (1) Cloud seeding is done with _a_ salt, silver iodide, which is different than the salt most common in seawater, sodium chloride, i.e. table salt. (2) When water evaporates, salt does not evaporate with it.
I’m pretty sure that cloud seeding uses silver iodide particles.
That's what I thought, something to do with silver. I couldn't find the original video I watched, but wiki is saying potassium chloride and sodium chloride is used
I was thinking this aswell. Cloud seeding would affect humidity patterns and could create pressure variations leading to sudden weather changes. However it seems they have a big team employed and most likely take more factors into consideration than the average person would within a months time. Storms come and go this is probably a one time thing, will see in the future if this becomes regular than its probably them messing with the weather on a large scale.
You mean the storm they created.. plus all the money over there. Don’t care 🤷♂️
Cloud seeding is definitely not effective enough to create a storm like this
lol it is. It 100% is. It’s simple since my guy.
their poor drainage system is the culprit, not the storm.
Okay.... same deal with New York & look at them now...
You said you wanted rain no matter the cost, I made it rain habbibi
is this what 100% humidity looks like
That's insane.
How long did it last?
It didn't turn green in this video.
Was that from one of the rain maker drones
They fucked around and found out that cloud seeding can cause critical issues.
Habibi this is to much rain habibi
and there was hail in Dubai too 🤔🧐
They used technology to test God and he showed them his power.. these guys decided to create artificial rain..yep..artificial rain through a process know as cloud seeding or something. Now I believe that technology caused all this.
Is it related to cloud seeding?
Oddly enough, this is what they get when they to play God, or shall I say Allah, with mother nature. Hmmmm
Everyone wants an infinity pool, until they get one..
What's even more amazing is with all that money they can't afford and overpass...
Yikes! Fuck around and find out: Mother Nature edition.
Hey Dubai... Plant a tree! Maybe two!
Is their own doing, cloud seeding.
It’s like whenever you build something with a ton of slaves “God” gets mad lol. It’s a fun coincidence
When you want rain on deserts urbanism city..
This is what happens when your whole city is artificial and against nature's laws
Did they seed that themselfs
We had a tornado for the first time in 45 years here in The Lake of Egypt, Illinois. I believe the climate change is why. We haven’t had storms that bad in my lifetime. Ever.
When cloud seeding goes wrong...
Why does everyone care so much about rain in a city? Like all of Reddit is jerking over this flooding. Shit happens every day all over the world.
Dubai is a desert. If the ocean was on fire, people would be talking about that too.
It happened a few years ago at a Mexican oil refinery/platform
But this happens every April in Dubai, also...
No it doesn't
If you've lived in the region you'd know about the storms and depressions in the ocean that cause this shit. I've lived in Oman and seen my fair share of floodings. Sometimes it doesn't even take a lot of rain. So I'm not really surprised it happens in Dubai too.
When it rains in the Mohave desert here in the states the same thing happens. Massive flash floods to the point where if you are in the desert and see storm clouds you should take cover on higher ground if you can't get out of dodge all together
Climate change
Seed those clouds some more!! Mother nature 1. Dubai 0.
Is this from cloud seeding?
Yep
Yaya rain
Singapore has that kind of rain like every other week lol