Parts of the Arabian Peninsula received 18 months of rainfall in 24 hours on the 16 April. In an article for The Conversation, Professor Richard Washington, Professor of Climate Science, explains why Dubai's recent unprecedented rainfall was not caused by cloud seeding.
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