UAE Flooding: Has Cloud Seeding any Relevance?
Cloud seeding needs to target the clouds in its early stage before it rains, in the absence of any thunderstorm development.
UAE’s Cloud seeding programme was aimed to provide an excess precipitation, of around 10-20% of the mean annual rainfall. In other words, UAE’s cloud exceeding could bring an excess rainfall of around 15 – 30 mm excess rainfall.
In case, if cloud seeding by artificial means, can bring out such a heavy spell, then, will be there be any water-scare problem at all on this earth?
Also, the report says that there was a slow moving storm that moved across the Arabian Peninsula and into the Gulf of Oman over several days, which transported abundant tropical moisture from near the equator and released it heavily over the region; and in fact, the report also adds that the storm also appeared in forecast models days in advance.
Also, huge tropical storms are not rare events for the middle-east.
For example, Dubai experienced nearly 240 mm of rainfall in just a few hours during March 2016.
Cloud seeding has almost no relevance at least in this case. While, the concept of extreme events is gaining more importance.
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