points out, in the city of Dubai, which reaches heats of up to 120 degrees F , scientists are using a special method to make it rain.
Specifically, Dubai is using drones that fly into clouds where they then discharge electricity to kickstart rain, which reduces temperatures and provides much-needed water resources.
Utilizing an unmanned aerial vehicle , similar to a combat drone, pulses of electricity are shot into the clouds in order to get the water droplets in those clouds to stick together"like dry hair to a comb," Professor Maarten Ambaum, who worked on the project,According toat McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, thanks to Professor W.D. Bancroft from Cornell University — he flew into clouds with a plane and"used various chemical compounds to cause the precipitation.
Prior to the rain drones, the UAE was already dropping salt to encourage precipitation, another form of cloud seeding. All of this will help the country to manage amid projections of less rainfall in the coming years. The Max Planck Insitute, for example,that large parts of the Middle East could become uninhabitable due to climate change by 2050. The UAE already records
less than 4 inches of rain per year, meaning it is racing against a worrying trend when it comes to keeping water from floating away from the region.
The Earth's moon and Mars are uninhabitable, and yet, they don't propose cloud seeding