Dubai’s giant highways were clogged by flooding following record rains in the Middle East financial centre on April 16, 2024 that killed at least four people. However, a dramatic video of cars swept away does not show the chaos, as falsely claimed by social media posts. The footage shows a tsunami in Japan in 2011. […]
Dubai, central Asia and southern Russia have all experienced uncommon levels of rainfall. Evacuations have ensued in various regions but much of the public distress has been around the Dubai airport which has flooded. The buzz around the Dubai airport flooding is due to the unusual levels of rainfall and the impact on travel. While […]
Dubai airport, one of the world’s busiest, said on Friday it is limiting the number of arriving flights as disruptions continue after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week suffered flooding from the heaviest rainfall seen in decades. The airport said it will be limiting the number of arriving flights starting Friday for 48 hours. […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The National Center of Meteorology, a government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, said it had not carried out the weather modification technique in the run-up to the heavy storms that caused flooding in places like Dubai. The organization told CNBC that it did […]
A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. At least 20 people were reported to have died in the deluge in Oman while another person was said to have died in floods in the UAE that […]
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. At least 20 people were reported to have died in the deluge in Oman while another person was said to have died […]
The Only Way Is Essex stars Joey Essex and James Argent were left stranded on the streets of Dubai after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) experienced the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the desert nation. On Tuesday more than a year and a half’s worth of rain was dumped onto the desert city-state in the […]
The United Arab Emirates experienced torrential rainfall and flash floods, beginning late Monday. Videos appear to show planes taxiing down flooded runways at Dubai International Airport. The flooding could have been worsened by cloud seeding, a practice to address water scarcity. Torrential rainfall pummeled the United Arab Emirates this week, resulting in flash floods that […]
The United Arab Emirates is attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the desert nation. The deluge flooded Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest hub for international travel. The state-run WAM news agency called Tuesday’s rain “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of […]
Heavy rains battered parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, closing schools in the United Arab Emirates and flooding the tarmac at Dubai International Airport. In Oman, at least 18 people have died in recent days due to the severe weather. The storms swamped roadways and created dangerous conditions across the region, a normally arid […]
Intense rain in the Middle East Sunday and Monday caused extensive flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, where at least 18 people have been killed. The death toll includes 10 schoolchildren who were washed away while in a vehicle in Samad A’Shan, Oman. On Tuesday, Dubai International Airport, the second-busiest airport in the […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers. Their use of the land is being threatened, and they have organized to resist the possibility […]