🌧️😳 In Dubai, artificial rain is sometimes created on purpose because natural rainfall is so rare in the desert city. 👁️
The process is called cloud seeding, where aircraft fly into clouds and release special particles like salt or silver iodide to encourage water droplets to form and fall as rain. 💀
Because Dubai experiences extreme heat and very little natural rainfall, authorities have invested heavily in weather modification technology to help increase precipitation and reduce water shortages. 😳
What makes it feel almost futuristic is that heavy rainstorms are sometimes expected and announced in advance after cloud seeding operations are planned.
Videos of sudden downpours flooding Dubai’s roads often go viral online because many people are shocked to learn that some of the rain was artificially enhanced rather than completely natural. 👁️
In one of the hottest desert regions on Earth, humans are now literally attempting to manufacture rain from the sky itself. 🎃 #Dubai
