Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport
www.nytimes.com
A year’s worth of rain fell in one day in some areas across Oman and the United Arab Emirates, bringing cities to a standstill.

The extreme weather appeared to be the result of a relatively normal weather system bringing rain that had been turbocharged by ocean and atmospheric warming, said Janette Lindesay, a climate scientist at the Australian National University. “It’s highly likely that global heating has played a role in the intensity of the event,” she said.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      The NYT is also very clear that it’s not cloud seeding:

      Although some have speculated that recent cloud seeding efforts by the U.A.E. — using chemicals to increase the chances of clouds producing rain — could have contributed to the extreme weather, scientists said this was very unlikely.

      “Rainfall enhancement could not cause that kind of increase in rainfall,” said Steven Siems, an expert in cloud seeding at Monash University in Australia, adding that any effects from cloud seeding would have been “marginal” at most.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 months ago

      Weird, I just read a Bloomberg article that claimed it was climate change… which immediately made me wonder why Bloomberg wrote those words as I thought they didn’t acknowledge climate change.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        Bloomberg (the news outlet) has a bunch of rather competent reporters who regularly cover climate, and Michael Bloomberg (who owns a controlling interest in it) was one of the major funders of the Sierra Club’s campaign to phase out coal use in the US.