The United Arab Emirates has employed the use of drones to generate rainfall due to the extreme weather conditions being observed in some continents in parts of the world. Temperatures in North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia are getting higher.
The National Center of Meteorology, United Arab Emirates, in a bid to curb the heat wave used the technology of cloud seeding to generate artificial rains. Drones are charged into the clouds and cause an electric shock due to which they clump together and cause rainfall.
Several videos have flooded social media since the event and a few have been shared by a UAE-based media organisation and the official handle of UAE weather.
The national weather service of the country also reported that video footage of the rainfall. The UAE has an annual rainfall of around 4 inches therefore; the country is working on its cloud seeding operations to increase its annual rainfall.
According to a publication, the UAE since 2017 has invested about $15 million to tackle its sinking water table.
Speaking with the BBC News, University of Reading professor and meteorologist, Maarten Ambaum who worked on the project said, “The water table is sinking drastically in UAE, and the purpose of this is to try to help with rainfall.”
The UAE is one of the first countries in the Gulf region to use cloud seeding technology, the National Center of Meteorology said. A version of the concept is used in at least eight states in the western U.S., according to The Scientific American.
