In a typical year, Dubai sees an average of 3.73 inches of rain, reports the Associated Press.On Tuesday, a torrential downpour brought 5.59 inches of rainfall and brought the city to a standstill.

Dubai International Airport 🇦🇪 has recorded nearly 160 mm (6.3 inches) of rain in the last 24 hours. For context, most of the Dubaï metro typically averages 3.5 inches per year. This is ...

The Dubai flooding last week illustrated how urban engineering is failing a major climate change test. In a world marked by the increasing possibility of extreme weather events, ...

The heavy rain that set off unprecedented flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Iran didn’t just appear out of nowhere. It also didn’t only affect areas that participate in cloud seeding.

Dubai satellite image (NOAA/CIRA). The last time Dubai experienced flooding rains was December 31, 2021, when the city received over three inches of rain over two days.

Flooding in the United Arab Emirates' city of Dubai last week illustrates a simple climate change problem the modern world has not fixed: lack of drainage. New cities built in previously ...