Record rainfall hit the Arabian peninsula this week, causing flooding in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as other coastal cities in the United Arab Emirates. The extreme weather prompted speculation on social media about whether the UAE’s longstanding cloud-seeding programme played a role. But cloud seeding almost certainly didn’t have any significant hand in the flooding.to the state-run Emirates News Agency.
. It involves spraying a powder, such as silver iodide, into clouds from planes or rockets, or by burning them from ground-based stations. Droplets of supercooled water can form around these particles, which then fall to the ground as rain or snow. that planes had seeded clouds above the country in the days before the storm. However, the NCM later said in a“We take the safety of our people, pilots and aircraft very seriously,” it said. “NCM doesn’t conduct cloud seeding operations during extreme weather events.”