UAE Denies Rumors That Cloud Seeding Caused Record-Breaking Flooding

The United Arab Emirates was hit with historic flooding on Tuesday after roughly a year’s worth of rain fell in just a single day. The record rainfall, more than four inches at the Dubai airport and 10 inches elsewhere in the country, caused some people online to speculate it was all caused by cloud seeding. But the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology released a statement to CNBC on Wednesday denying the claims. As the Washington Post points out, meteorological models predicted heavy rain in the UAE a week earlier, and...