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  2. Is Cloud Seeding to Blame for Floods? What to Know - AOL

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    Cloud seeding is used to make recalcitrant clouds produce some rain,” she says. “The thunderstorms themselves are much more likely to have caused the extreme flooding in Dubai due to climate ...

  3. Cloud seeding - Wikipedia

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    In Malaysia, cloud seeding was first used in 1988 for three purposes: filling up dams, lessening the effects of haze, and fighting forest fires. [68] In 2015, cloud seeding was done daily in Malaysia since the haze began in early-August. [69] Johor Water Regulatory Body is focus to produce rain over dams with critically low water levels.

  4. Cloud seeding in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Scientists from the University of Reading, whose cloud seeding program is used by the UAE, denied that cloud seeding was to blame for the heavy rainfall, given that the large-scale weather pattern was predicted in advance and was too large to be influenced by cloud seeding. They added that the effects of cloud seeding are typically short-lived ...

  5. Weather modification - Wikipedia

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    Cloud seeding can be done by ground generators (left) or planes. Cloud seeding is a common technique to enhance precipitation. Cloud seeding entails spraying small particles, such as silver iodide, onto clouds to attempt to affect their development, usually with the goal of increasing precipitation. Cloud seeding only works to the extent that ...

  6. ️ Is cloud seeding to blame for the floods? - AOL

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    This week the United Arab Emirates saw record rainfall, the heaviest amount in 75 years. Many have speculated that the nation’s cloud seeding operations were to blame, though experts said otherwise.

  7. Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in ...

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    Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. “It's most certainly not cloud seeding ...

  8. What is cloud seeding? Torrential Dubai rain sparks ... - AOL

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    Cloud seeding is a weather modification concept that attempts to draw more rain or snow out of a cloud than would occur naturally. Cloud droplets don’t form spontaneously. The moisture needs ...

  9. 2024 Persian Gulf floods - Wikipedia

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    Scientists from the University of Reading, whose cloud seeding program is used by the UAE, denied that cloud seeding was to blame for the heavy rainfall, given that the large-scale weather pattern was predicted in advance and was too large to be influenced by cloud seeding. They added that the effects of cloud seeding are typically short-lived ...