Downpours in Dubai bring the equivalent of two years of rain in just a day

Dubai was inundated by rounds of downpours and submerged in flooding brought on by the equivalent of about two years’ worth of rain Tuesday. It follows flooding in recent days that reportedly killed at least 18 in neighboring Oman. A United Arab Emirates city of several million on the Persian Gulf about 500 miles southeast of Kuwait, Dubai sits in an arid region — despite ample humidity, given its proximity to the sultry Persian Gulf. The city averages only a few inches of rain per year. Sparked by an unseasonably...